Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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Chef Dan Barber on the farm-to-table movement’s next steps
http://grist.org/food/chef-dan-barber-on-what-the-farm-to-table-movement-missed/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520May%252028&utm_campaign=daily

Again, I can't agree with all he says but this line caught my eye:
   "I went in search of food with jaw-dropping flavor, and 
surprisingly, all roads led me straight to soil."
Well of course. People say there's nothing like homegrown, but there's a 
lot more going on below the soil surface. We keep telling our people 
that flavor is compromised by artificial fertilizers & dead soil killed 
by chemicals & compaction. It's cheating plants of what they want, all 
for weak growth & faster production. And flavor sells.