Resilience Food Stories

‘Look through the lens of food and you can address all the catastrophes in the world.’

‘A farmer’s responsibility is to build soil fertility.’

About the sustainability of Dutch agriculture.

‘In short it's a democratic civil society system that buys and manages land, considering it not as a commodity but as a common good that will not be sold again.’

‘Live life on the Veg’

‘We're at the mercy of the food industry about what we put into our mouths’

‘This planet of ours is on loan and so we must leave it as we found it, if not better.’

‘I hope that one day farmers will change and that the world will change as well.’

‘Fix what we broke’

We developed methodologies for working with food crops, building up the forest again.

'Making a change for the seventh generation"

‘For as long as this country depends largely on imports for its food, not a kilo of what I grow will go over the border.’

‘Agriculture can be the first step towards changing society.’

‘When you dream alone it's a dream; when you dream together the reality begins.’

‘Respect for people and the environment should absolutely never be lost sight. It is the fundamental goal for all of us young farmers. Like many of my peers, I’m convinced that we can make tradition and innovation coexist.’

‘The idea is to connect peasant farmers with consumers in a megacity.’

‘My job at the moment is to convince others to join us and to take care of the environment.’

‘Do it for love or do it for money, but do it.’

‘There are no better farmers than the organisms that live in the soil’

'Being able to see the butterflies on the land, and at night the glow worms. That's the only thing that matters'

‘We try to preserve a whole ecosystem which I think you can also taste in our wines.’

'The trees have proven me right'

‘We don’t feed our plants; we feed the soil.’

‘We often talk about urban farming. I call myself a metropolitan farmer.’

The Bull Inn; run according to the ethos of “planet, people, profit”,

‘Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat.’

‘It's the land that feeds us’

‘It’s not only the taste, it’s a different feeling. It’s also this connection with the soil and nature.’

‘Let’s celebrate one fresh ingredient at a time.’

'I call myself an agri-chef, but my main job is farming. '

‘This isn’t a coffee plantation, it’s a food forest that gives us everything we need.’

‘This piece of land helped us to get by without having to spend money on food.’

‘Cacao doesn't have a price it has a value.’

‘We catch the Sun and the Walls imprison it.’

‘Achieving gender equality and empowering women is not only the right thing to do but a critical ingredient in the fight against poverty, hunger and malnutrition.’

'Practice what you preach'

‘We think that nature can work to the best of its potential with help from nature itself.’

‘These ancestral common-sense methods, nowadays called organic agriculture, are necessary if we are to keep the earth healthy. There’s no need for any scientific research that might prove the fact in order to convince me of it.’

‘Organic farming, I think, is the way of the future.'

'People before me planted them 150 years ago. I refuse to be th one who will see these trees die.'

‘For me, this transition, this change, is primarily dictated by a desire for freedom and independence.’

'This way of cultivating is unique, we succeed in conveying what we want to bring into the bottle: a complete reflection of nature.'

‘I remember in my house in the winter there was always a pot of Greek mountain tea.’

‘Because we were given a nature which was virgin, it's important to return it virgin to the next generation.’

‘Biodynamic farming is simply about finding the fundamentals just as our grandparents did.’

‘We have something more sustainable that we care for and that also makes us happy, it’s really fun and in the end it’s something good that we like doing.’

‘The switch from conventional to organic agriculture was fundamental because our living conditions have improved.’

‘We don't want to own the land we just want to be the users of a common resource.’

'The DNA that is in the environment through the organic matter cycle can be good if it's not self and not good if it's self.'

‘We have been pastry chefs for four generations. Our approach to making pastries begins in the countryside. It always has.’

The thin skin of the apple

‘Sustainability runs in our veins. We believe it’s our responsibility to constantly improve our impact on this earth in terms of carbon footprint, pollution and biodiversity.’

‘The truth is, you cannot eat all the pineapples from your plantation, and neither will you have a feast in a wheat field. What will feed you is diversity.’

‘With every euro you spend on food from a local farmer working sustainably, you give your voice to the world in which you want to live.’

‘I don't watch television: I watch my plants.’

‘One day, I went to the supermarket and saw that we import parsley from Italy How can we be so blind? Are we unable to grow our own parsley?’

‘We always ask the question: What would Mother Nature do without Man.’

‘The small satisfaction of picking an apple and eating it right at that moment, without second thoughts. To pick an apple and, without peeling it, eat it... It’s sweet and good.’

‘We made this choice to provide an alternative to conventional farming.’

‘What I want to leave to future generations is a piece of the earth that’s healthy in every respect.’

‘No individual or multinational can take ownership of characteristics that simply occur in nature.’

‘In the end I feel myself more farmer then engineer.’

‘We have grown from 50 to 350 hectares that really reflects the development of organics.’

‘The land feeds the animals, the animals feed the land’

‘If we don’t keep the land clean and look after the trees we could lose them completely.’

‘We had to take responsibility across the food system to ensure that it's a transformation of the system as such.’

‘We're not just talking about the culture of Paella but the culture of rice too’

‘We arrived at a turning point where we realised we needed to change something.’

‘We have opted for a system of farming with honey meadows to ensure the happiness of the bees and the sheep that graze there.’

‘For us, regenerative agriculture is a holistic approach.’

'It’s a combination of nature and culture, farming wisdom and science, soil and soul, heart and mind.’

‘We plan to be carbon neutral by 2027, from the farm to our distribution, including air and sea freight.’

‘We live with the bees and see bees as our teachers in life.’

‘Let’s all go organic, let’s eat healthy, dense, clean food and lifestyle diseases will be a thing of the past.’

'It’s our season.'

'We’ll have to make our cities more resilient and demonstrate resilience ourselves as we face the problems that are now coming our way.'

'We must educate the consumer to eat good food. Because from good food comes human health.'

Strawberry Fields Forever

‘We feel deeply proud of the beauty of the land we have inherited. We regard it as our job, our duty, to pass it on.’

"I am like a mother here in the garden"

‘The mountain teaches us the direction every year, day or moment we spend here.’

‘When a community's environment is healthy, so are its people.’

‘We share a passion for and dedication to producing the very best organically grown produce.’

'A system of farming practices that seeks to rehabilitate and enhance the entire agro-ecosystem, it pushes us to think well beyond sustainability or “organic” and works at any latitude and on any scale.'

‘To me it was obvious there was another way.’

‘Despite its uncultivated environment, Iceland grows half of its own vegetables’