Nell Newman Quotes

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.
It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.
It's so gratifying to see people face to face who get to meet the people who are giving them a fair price for their work. They can now provide medical support for their kids, give them better education and in general have a better standard of living. God knows they deserve it.
My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.
My dad hates doing PR, so I volunteered to do this for him.
My niche will be to support the environment through the growth of organic agriculture.
The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think of was the nut loaf with yeast gravy that my mother made in the Seventies.
To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.
What I discovered was that just by eating normally, we all have background levels of contaminants.
When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.
When I come in from the beach at night, I'm too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.
When I was at home, I always cooked, and I usually cook over all the holidays. I always used organic.
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