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Now, I’m all about organic and green and all that, seriously. But….I went to get some bags of manure for a garden project (no close relationships with people who’d let me clean their barns!) and I had two choices.
1.27 for manure OR
2.27 for “organic” manure????????
I kind of thought there wasn’t anything much more organic than sh**!
It’s a good buzz word, even for manure. I would hate to be the person who certifies it organic.
I have a vendor who bring organic milk into the store I work at. She’s been getting this together for 20 years. There are a lot of steps to be “organic”. Her cows have to be fed certified organic hay. This is a processes in its self. Documentation upon documentation. Even the trailer that the hay in brought on has to certified organic. It has to be recorded when it was cleaned and with what and that no non-organic hay was delivered with the trailer.
My father-in-law asked me how the keep organic honey bees from going to non-organic flowers. I told him small electronic shock collars.
My father-in-law asked me how the keep organic honey bees from going to non-organic flowers. I told him small electronic shock collars.
LOL You mean you haven’t waypointed all the organic flower fields and given the bees their own little units?
There is some concern down this way brewing among the many, many certified organic farmers. With the torrential rains, the possibility of run-off from nearby fields that are not organic looms as a threat to their certification. The Community Supported Agriculture farm to which we belong is luckily a ridgetop farm. They have neighbors in the valley who were not so lucky last summer and had to close it up all together.
What amazes me most is that really, once past all the certification processes, producing food this way is usually not as expensive. Any way you look at it, farming is hard work, organic or not. Hurray for all the small family farmers who are staying in business.
it’s hard to raise organic as a whole, because the yield is usually at least 20% lower. some of the implementations of “organic” fertilizers and feeds are also a matter of conjecture. from my past experience with organic farmers, i found that some of these so called organic farms were actually bending the organic rules. (using non-approved organic products for production)
it just seems to me that organic farming is sometimes hypocritical of what it promotes
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