Food Quote by Novella Carpenter

“Putting up food is, at its heart, an optimistic thing. It’s a bold way to say: I will be sticking around.” quote by Novella Carpenter — Download Open image

““Putting up food is, at its heart, an optimistic thing. It’s a bold way to say: I will be sticking around.””

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Urban farming appeals to people on the right and the left. People have different reasons for getting into it. Some people are like doomsdayers,…

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As cities get more dense, you have people saying, "Why would you have an urban farm when you could have affordable housing on that…

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I don't know Hillary's Clinton stance on urban farming. I don't know Donald Trump's stance or Bernie Sanders's for that matter. But the Obamas…

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Even if you live in New York City, you can have a little basil plant in your window, and that could be considered urban…

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My argument for that is: Why not create urban farms that are like parks, on public land? There actually is a park that I…

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Anyone who has kids knows that children like to be around chickens, goats, whatever. My kid loves to go out and feed the chickens…

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I didn't think that at the beginning. I just wanted to have a garden and a farm and have animals around me. But I…

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“No one seemed to think it was odd that a Dumpster-diving urban pig farmer was in their midst. In fact, I came to learn…

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There is this really intimate connection that people have with the animals they're going to eat. A lot of people who eat meat say…

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I feel that anyone can do farming. But people who are in it for the long haul have to have a little bit of…

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“I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries.”

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