At Farm Aid 2008, Willie reminisced about his growing up in Abbott, Texas, where his family grew some of their own food in a small garden. He sees the local community model from his childhood as a workable solution to many of our larger problems of today. While I don't see the short-term promise of ethanol crops that Willie does, I do see that choosing organic foods can reduce our oil dependence by eliminating the oil-based pesticides and oil-based fertilizers -- up to forty percent of the oil used on conventional farms. I love Willie's idea of doing locally what we can do well locally, while at the same time benefiting from the larger global community for things that we do better together. Watch the two minutes of Willie Nelson on the past and the future above.

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