In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity. — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it. — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true. — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
In food, issues that surround purchasing and that whole realm have a very political component and they branch into stories that can be really… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals. — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either. — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
“modern agriculture has thoroughly separated the agri from the culture. They’ve killed the meaning of the word—bifurcated it, completely, in just the last thirty… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture. — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
“of some nutrients than we need in an attempt to get enough of others to meet our basic nutritional requirements,” Ikerd once said. “The… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
