Quotes... important

"In short, considering the news that these days you read in the newspapers about dioxin, estrogens, antibiotics, and poisons of various kinds, if I am still able to feed myself and others according to nature, I try to do it in the best way. Which, in the end, is not more expensive than buying at supermarkets. So the other day, when Mrs. Caterina, who grazes her cows on the pastures of Pol-trecche, told me she had bought some red-spotted beef heifers from Slovenia so she could have good and healthy meat for the whole family from December to late spring, I asked her if she could get a heifer for me too. The agreement was made, and so a heifer that instead comes from Slovakia is eating grass on the mountain of polenta at the edge of the woods of roe deer and deer."

from "Inverni Lontani", 1999, M. Rigoni Stern

It has a certain effect, for those who do a job like ours, to find these words like this, by chance, reading a book by the great Mario Rigoni Stern... they help us understand that today, as then, we are going in the right direction... against the current, surely, but we believe in it!!