“Then he discovered the library’s collection of agriculture books, which included works by Sir Albert Howard and Rudolf Steiner. “I read them and it clicked,” he said. “I mean, it all just came together.” — 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