Peter Bane > Quotes

“The logic of Fordism gained the upper hand, and by the 1970s, Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz, a brilliant but benighted agronomist from Purdue University, was announcing to American farmers the new national policy, “Get big or get out.”10”
― Peter Bane, The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country

“in a short essay I wrote in 1991, Gardening As Agriculture. In that essay I asserted that gardening should be recognized as a serious and important form of agriculture that functions as an incubator for new farmers and farming methods.”
― Peter Bane, The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country