Keep Organic In The Soil

KEEP THE SOIL IN ORGANICS!!!!

Healthy soil, healthy people, saves $$$$$.

As a certified organic farmer, we need a label with integrity, that can help our customers find products which are actively supporting the soils and environment in which we all live. The best way to do that is to keep our lifelines integrally tied into our environment, not try to further divorce or insulate ourselves from it.

I want my organic produce grown in healthy soil outside, not in a warehouse in liquid fertilizer.

Soil is life

HOW COULD WE NOT GROW ORGANIC VEGETABLES IN SOIL?

Let's keep organic really organic. We need to support our real soil-based organic farmers. They are the best.

Hydroponics needs its own certification since crops raised hydroponically are not grown in soil

Good call

I'm an organic soil farmer in South Florida. I want organic certification to mean stewardship of the land. I really knock hydro farms, but just think the market should be fair, and the label should should mean we're building healthy soil.

Organic agriculture is based on improving the fertility of the soil. We demand that the USDA Keep Organic Growing in the Soil. No Hydroponics Certified As Organic!

Organic agriculture is based on improving the fertility of the soil. We demand that the USDA Keep Organic Growing in the Soil. No Hydroponics Certified As Organic!

Please keep hydroponic production out of organic agriculture.

Hydroponically grown produce is not organically grown produce. Please don't take this away from the hardworking organic farmers.

This is of vital importance to the life of our planet

Canadian Organic Certification does not allow this, period. US Organic certification is a joke!!

Keep organic in the soil!

I am a 2nd-year farmer focused on organic and sustainable practices. I am disheartened and frustrated the efforts of so many, myself included, are being disenfranchised by the efforts of these government entities. Hydroponics are not organic and are heavily dependent on liquid chemicals and unsustainable inputs. Soil gives the plants the nourishment our bodies need. Do not replace these with more synthetics.

I'm a U.S. citizen, and reserve the right to know what is going in to my food to maintain the best personal and eviromental health possible. "Greenwashed" language on our food lables is a waste of time and energy of those who truely have good intentions.

Keep the Soil in Organic. Hydroponics should not be able to hijack the organic label. We need to continue to nurture our soils, sequester Carbon, improve our natural systems and organic agriculture does this. By allowing hydroponics to call themselves organic, we are watering down the organic standards and working against the foundational principals from which Certified Organic was founded. Hydroponics needs their own label.