One to One with Bill Goodman:
Susie Quick
aired April 6 and 8, 2007
As a cookbook author and an editor at various epicurean and lifestyle magazines, Susie Quick spent several years as part of what she terms the “celebrity” food scene. On this edition of One to One, she explains why she “traded in my Prada boots for rubber garden clogs and rolled up my sleeves” to start her own small farm near Midway.
Her nonprofit Honest Farm is run according to “trendy” principles that are actually based on age-old wisdom. “We call the food we raise ‘honest’ because it’s grown pretty much the same way our grandparents grew their food before the days of industrial farming and the widespread use of chemicals,” Quick says. Composted horse manure provides the fertilizer, regular crop rotation and cover crops like clover and buckwheat help replenish soil nutrients, and flowers and herbs planted between rows attract beneficial insects.
One of Honest Farm’s most important products is community education. The farm is open to the public each Saturday and features a children’s garden spotlighting creative and often fanciful methods of recycling and reusing materials. Quick, the author of Quick Simple Food and The Cake Club: Delicious Desserts and Stories from a Southern Childhood, also plans to host cooking classes and special events.
