Healthy Quotes

"Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development."–William Longgood

"High nitrogen levels make plants grow fast and bulk up with carbohydrates and water. While the fruits these plants produce may be big, they suffer in nutritional quality, whereas organic production systems [which use slow-release forms of nitrogen] produce foods that usually yield denser concentrations of nutrients and deliver consumers a better nutritional bargain per calorie consumed."Agriculture expert Charles Benbrook, Ph.D. explains why conventional produce has lower nutrient values than organic produce.

"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself"– Franklin D. Roosevelt