and fertile soil. Removing crop after crop, year after year, rapidly depletes the soil. Simplistic replacement of the NPK (nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium) does NOT replenish the soil and only leads to the sad insipid excuses so commonly stacked high on supermarket shelves. On the other hand, balancing the soil---fully mineralizing it to an ideal state---allows the production of fruits and vegetables of superb flavor and taste---fit for royalty: YOUR family. There are farmers out there who know how to do the job right. Demanding the very best helps them. A refractometer can help lead you to the topnotch growers already doing the job. On the other hand, countless consumers armed with a measuring tool and saying, "I don't want your sad fare" will wake up the supermarkets. The produce managers will then wake up that majority of farmers who are still sleeping. Quality : this, indeed, is the needed revolution in Agriculture. FOREWORD In 1970 the author "inherited" a large garden that had belonged to a long time J. I. Rodale devotee. As spring rolled around, the next door neighbor, Mike Lasko, came over and said, "Do you want some help tilling." I did, and a great friendship was born. Not too long after the first transplants went out, Mike dropped over and asked if I had a sprayer. Hearing that I did not, he said, "Well, you've got to get one---or borrow mine. You'll be needing Malathion soon enough." Being a reader of Organic Gardening, I declined---with the thought