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When it comes to farm to table dining, it doesn’t get much better than the Barber family's legendary NYC and Westchester Blue Hill restaurants. For co-owner David, sustainable living begins in the garden but continues at home. Find out what’s on Barber’s wish list and why he’d like to do away with Earth Day.
What has been your smallest lifestyle change?
Fluorescent light bulbs. I’ve revised my thinking and feelings to ones of “forced love.”
What has been your biggest lifestyle change?
What I eat. I used to be concerned with what I ate; I was constantly excluding and including different things. No more: I eat everything. But now I want to know where my food is coming from. And I want to know as much as possible about who is growing it.
Who is your green superhero?
[Patagonia founder and world-class mountaineer] Yvon Chouinard.
What’s your not-so-green guilty pleasure?
I love cars. Some of the ones I love don’t get great gas mileage.
"Please eliminate the concept of Earth Day."
What’s your little green secret?
In my car, I coast down hills, and whenever I see a red light or stop sign, I coast to it too. It’s a game. But it’s fun. And like everything else: If everyone did it, huge difference.
If you had five minutes in the Oval Office, what would you say?
Please eliminate the concept of Earth Day. It’s a preposterous notion, we humans saving Mother Earth. Mother Earth will be just fine, and if we begin to show her a little respect, our great grandchildren may be permitted to continue living here.
David Barber
Co-owner, Blue Hill Farms
What’s on your recommended reading list?
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv.
What do you hope to pass down to your children?
Artwork. We tell stories about them to each other [about] how a painting makes us feel. The stories become a part of the piece and can travel with it from one generation to another.
What keeps you up at night?
65 percent of the world’s agricultural land is already devoted to growing feed (soy and corn — not grass) to feed livestock. The Chinese have increased their consumption of meat by 400 percent in just 15 years. The surface of the planet and the ocean are starting to look too small for 6 billion of us.
"[I'd create] the flux capacitor from Back to the Future."
What’s on your wish list?
I want to someday have a home that is virtually off the grid. It’s not cheap, but the technology out there does make it possible to build a sustainable dwelling.
If you could snap your fingers and create a green product or service that doesn’t exist yet, what would it be?
The flux capacitor from Back to the Future. The concept of devices that run on our garbage may just be the key to our survival.
