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I live in a cabin in Santa Cruz.
Nell Newman / Actress
Cruz
Santa
Cabin
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Extinction was a difficult concept for a 10-year-old.
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Extinction
Concept
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My dad hates doing PR, so I volunteered to do this for him.
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Hates
Volunteered
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I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.
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Causes
Make A Difference
Supporting
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I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.
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Protection
Supports
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It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.
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Ethical
Return
Me Something Go
Me Go Something
Occur
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My niche will be to support the environment through the growth of organic agriculture.
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Niche
Organic
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I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.
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Avoiding
Public Eye
Quarry
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I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.
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Normal
Normal Life
Plumber
Life Father People
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Daddy was like a lot of people who kind of turn their noses up when you say the word 'organic.'
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Daddy
Noses
Organic
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When I come in from the beach at night, I'm too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.
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Beach
Hungry
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What I discovered was that just by eating normally, we all have background levels of contaminants.
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Levels
Normally
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To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.
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Labor
Satisfying
Meal
Pepper
Prepare
Tomato
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When I was at home, I always cooked, and I usually cook over all the holidays. I always used organic.
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Cooked
Holidays
Organic
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It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.
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Apparent
Organically
Readily
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I want our company to leave a legacy of learning to find the balance between what's good and what's good for you.
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Balance
Legacy
Leave
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I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.
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Shopping
Smell
Good Dad Me
Farm
Stands
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I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.
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Tasted
Organic
Sought
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I did a couple of movies when I was little. You have to be possessed to be an actress, and I was not possessed... It was not my life's passion.
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Possessed
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Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground.
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Garden
Playground
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By the time I grew up, acting just seemed like something I'd already done. I had absolutely no interest in it, even though some people thought it would be my calling.
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Time Done People
By The Time
Time People Done
No Interest
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Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.
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Generous Spirit
Mean
Mindfulness
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The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think of was the nut loaf with yeast gravy that my mother made in the Seventies.
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Convincing
Gravy
Organic Food
Seventies
Yeast
Biggest Problem
Loaf
Organic
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Barley malt has a really deep, rich taste. A lot of manufacturers have switched over to corn syrup over the years because it's a cheaper sweetener, but it doesn't have the flavor.
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Barley
Cheaper
Corn
Flavor
Syrup
Taste
Manufacturers
Switched
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My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.
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Biology
California
Cruz
Fundraising
Predatory
Santa
Family Business
University Of California
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I think all family businesses are difficult and fraught with problems because you have that family relationship to get over. But my dad has been so supportive, we've managed to work around that.
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Supportive
Family Work Relationship
Businesses
Fraught
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Basically, what we've done is, every year we take half the money and allow people who've helped us in the industry to give it away. One year, the ladies who put the pretzel bags in the boxes got to give it away.
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Bags
Boxes
Money Done People
Money People Done
Ladies
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After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.
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Avoided
Eye
Persona
Public Eye
Good Always Me
Good Me Picture
Picture
Bag
Good Cause
Recognized
Wanting
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Adopting big-business practices is one thing, and adopting agribusiness practices that would dilute the meaning of 'organic' is another. On the whole, I think we're doing a pretty good job of preserving the integrity of organic foods.
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Adopting
Good Job
Foods
Meaning Of
Organic
Practices
Preserving
Pretty Good
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When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.
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Coffee
Crops
Fair Trade
Farmers
Harvest
Minimum
Below
Invest
Costs
Fair
Forced
Guaranteed
Off
Homes
Lose
Production
Price
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Have you ever read the back of the Newman's Diavolo pasta sauce? Dad on the front is dressed like the devil with a little beard and horns. He says that he sells his soul to the devil for the recipe. It was banned in the South. They thought it was an abomination.
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Banned
Beard
Horns
Newman
Pasta
Sauce
Sells
Dressed
Front
Recipe
Says
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It's so gratifying to see people face to face who get to meet the people who are giving them a fair price for their work. They can now provide medical support for their kids, give them better education and in general have a better standard of living. God knows they deserve it.
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Deserve
Gratifying
Standard
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