We are two medical doctors who practice in New York City and who view food as an integral part of health, both in a preventative sense, and also as a way to modify one's health and to affect the course of an illness or disease process.

For us, growing food has immense personal and political meaning. Personally, it connects us with the land while at the same time it offers us control over the quality and variety of our food. It also allows us to reduce our overall food costs, enables us to problem solve the challenges of small scale farming and at the same time it provides us with a daily mindfulness practice. Globally, it strengthens our bond with our community and enables us to play a part in environmental sustainability (less packaging, lower fuel use, less water run-off). Politically, we're making a larger statement that we don't approve of pesticides/herbicides and non-organic fertilizers, that we should not expect to eat non-seasonally without global consequences, that seeds should not be patented and that we should preserve the large biodiversity of different varieties of vegetables and fruits.

Aside from that, we really love eating and cooking!