The ripen fruit is for a sacred season.

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only…

— Tom Vilsack

Family over friends, because real friends are family

— Anonymous

“She allowed herself the luxury of a good cry, figuring that her tears were mingling with the downpour to soak into the soil. It…

— Tracy Winegar

“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of the land…

— Nina Fedoroff

Farming's always been my business.

— Howlin' Wolf

There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have…

— Lauren F. Winner

“I'm growing as a person. I'm self-farming. That's the highest form of farming, even greater than being a duck farmer, which, as you can…

— Jarod Kintz

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

— Wendell Berry

“The cost to reconnect animals to live in natural settings without human support is a debt that many animals in transition must honor with…

— Young Tim

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

— Jane Smiley

And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not…

— Anonymous

Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or…

— Dolores Huerta

Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep…

— Moby

“Ellis,” he said. “You’re watchin’ a miracle right under your nose.” He gave a few of the seeds to Ellis and let him drop…

— Tracy Winegar

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise…

— Emiliano Zapata