Soil that is full of diversity is a key part of growing organic. We need healthy soils.
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Linda Rasch
9 years ago
This is so important. Our health and wellbeing depends upon connection to the earth, soil that is full of organic nutrients that help the plants and consumers of them thrive. Maintain the integrity of organic standards and attention to our soil quality ! The health of people and the planet depend upon it.
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Ernesto Velazquez
9 years ago
Keep it green and simple let grow the way it was intended too
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Clive Bright
9 years ago
Soil equals nutrients
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deanna munson
9 years ago
grown in chemical water ?? that is not "organic"
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Deb Hemingway
9 years ago
Just as we're still working to understand the multiple complex roles of genes and biochemistry in humans, so it is with the complex role of food in our bodies. We should not, like baby formula of long ago, decide that we know it all and can recreate everything we need in a lab.
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Anonymous
9 years ago
Man has made too many serious mistakes in the past by thinking we know the answers, when we don't. We should know by now that life and nature is complex and intertwined and we don't replicate it by pulling out a few bits of it and saying it is the same. Soil is complex.
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Stacey Taba Taba
9 years ago
Keep organic growing in the soil.
No Hydroponics as Organic.
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Mary Peppard
9 years ago
Consumers deserve the right to organic food that is grown in soil. Grocers who stock only hydroponic produce deny their customers that right.
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Louise Hasson
9 years ago
Managing the earths soil to produce healthy produce is organics. Using sludge to create produce does nothing to enhance the life of the earth and us.
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Susan Lockyer
9 years ago
As a home gardener, I have seen and tasted the difference between what I grow organically and everything else, including hydroponic, and I make it a point to buy organically grown produce when I must purchase additions to what I grow.
Plants grow in dirt, and nature has been doing it since plants evolved. Plants die and nourish the soil so other plants can grow. Animals come along and add their waste to the mix.
No intervention is needed for nature's bounty. So, if we are going to enhance the yield of those plants we desire, it only makes sense to do it nature's way, and that starts with dirt.
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Neal Friedman
9 years ago
Hydroponic growing methods have their place, but they are NOT organic. Please don't pollute the value of the "Organic" label by allowing hydroponic crops to be included. Those growers are free to use the word "hydroponics" on their produce, providing the ultimate in consumer choice. They have no right to hide behind the "Organic" label.
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Anonymous
9 years ago
Keep the soil in Organic!
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David Sheppard
9 years ago
tilthe is the truth about organic growing.
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Carl Emley
9 years ago
I am slowing changing farm to all organic
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Courtney Ellis
9 years ago
We need the nutrients that only the soil can provide to heal ourselves. Food is medicine
Dirt all the way!
Soil that is full of diversity is a key part of growing organic. We need healthy soils.
This is so important. Our health and wellbeing depends upon connection to the earth, soil that is full of organic nutrients that help the plants and consumers of them thrive. Maintain the integrity of organic standards and attention to our soil quality ! The health of people and the planet depend upon it.
Keep it green and simple let grow the way it was intended too
Soil equals nutrients
grown in chemical water ?? that is not "organic"
Just as we're still working to understand the multiple complex roles of genes and biochemistry in humans, so it is with the complex role of food in our bodies. We should not, like baby formula of long ago, decide that we know it all and can recreate everything we need in a lab.
Man has made too many serious mistakes in the past by thinking we know the answers, when we don't. We should know by now that life and nature is complex and intertwined and we don't replicate it by pulling out a few bits of it and saying it is the same. Soil is complex.
Keep organic growing in the soil. No Hydroponics as Organic.
Consumers deserve the right to organic food that is grown in soil. Grocers who stock only hydroponic produce deny their customers that right.
Managing the earths soil to produce healthy produce is organics. Using sludge to create produce does nothing to enhance the life of the earth and us.
As a home gardener, I have seen and tasted the difference between what I grow organically and everything else, including hydroponic, and I make it a point to buy organically grown produce when I must purchase additions to what I grow. Plants grow in dirt, and nature has been doing it since plants evolved. Plants die and nourish the soil so other plants can grow. Animals come along and add their waste to the mix. No intervention is needed for nature's bounty. So, if we are going to enhance the yield of those plants we desire, it only makes sense to do it nature's way, and that starts with dirt.
Hydroponic growing methods have their place, but they are NOT organic. Please don't pollute the value of the "Organic" label by allowing hydroponic crops to be included. Those growers are free to use the word "hydroponics" on their produce, providing the ultimate in consumer choice. They have no right to hide behind the "Organic" label.
Keep the soil in Organic!
tilthe is the truth about organic growing.
I am slowing changing farm to all organic
We need the nutrients that only the soil can provide to heal ourselves. Food is medicine
Do the right thing!
Keep organic in the soil!
The soil will save us...if we save our soil