There are many good reasons to grow your own food. Here are some proverbs and quotes about farmers and gardeners.
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As is the gardener, such is the garden.
As the garden grows so does the gardener.
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
Michael PollanHandsome cats and fat dungheaps are the sign of a good farmer.
If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?
Tom BarrettIt is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B.C. ForbesLet the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
Thomas JeffersonNo one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.
H.L. MenckenThe diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
Marcus Tullius CiceroLatin: Abores serit diligens agricola, quarum adspiciet baccam ipse numquam.
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
Will RogersThe farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.
The farmer works the soil. The agriculturist works the farmer.
Eugene F. WareThe farmers are the founders of civilization.
Daniel WebsterThe first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe gardener's hands are black with earth but his loaves are white.
The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops.
BibleTo sell cucumbers to the gardener.
A useless act.We farmers ought not to have much time for reading; yet somehow one can't help it.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Cranford
We used to be a nation of farmers, but now it's less than two percent of the population in the United States. So a lot of us don't know a lot about what it takes to grow food.
Well, sir, if I could grow apples like that, I would call myself a gardener.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Sam
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Daniel WebsterWith the advent of industrial farming and the green revolution, organic farming was relegated to the status of 'quaint' or 'old-fashioned'.. something practiced by hippies on communes, certainly not by serious farmers.
David Suzuki