We undervalue food in this country, yet Britain has beautiful food and beautiful growing conditions. It is astonishing the range we can grow.

My basic philosophy is never do anything with the word 'celebrity' attached to it. Without being overly pompous, if you have worked hard to have an audience trust you a bit, why blow it? That is my currency.

The horticultural industry is unimaginative and dominated by vast, supermarket-like outlets. But the small nurseries and growers remain - praise them with your wallets, not your memories.

A healthy plant is one that adapts best to the situation in which it finds itself. There is no objective measure of this.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.

This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.