No way hydroponic. No way!!! Soil based only. Certified USDA Organic in Northwest Arkansas.
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Mike Pasner
9 years ago
You must have soil to farm organically
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Nancy Eason
9 years ago
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As a gardener who has seen her yields grow and pests decrease over the years, I know from firsthand experience that the health of my food is in the health of my soil. Hydroponics cannot simulate real living soil full of microorganisms. Please keep the soil in organic!
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Melissa McDonald
9 years ago
Man in all his wisdom still does not understand all the inner workings of plants. Soil is their natural habitat and the interaction between microbes, nutrients and the plants should be maintained for food to be considered organic.
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Nathan Brown
9 years ago
The Montana Organic Association opposed hydroponic growing being certified organic. The NOSB needs to vote in the fall on this!
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Kris McCue
9 years ago
Removing part of the natural system for plant growth and development, such as removing soil from the equation, removes the plants and what they produce from the right to be called organic.
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Louise Fortier
9 years ago
As an organic farmer, I think that working for a healthy soil is our most important job.
New Earth Organic Farm, Colebrook, NH
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Kris Johnson
9 years ago
Hydroponics may be clean, but it is not as nutritious as food grown in truly fertile soil. Calling it "Organic" is very misleading to the public.
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Karen Eberly
9 years ago
Plants get more nutrients out of fertile soil than can be put into water.
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Ellen Ussery
9 years ago
Nothing can replace soil
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amy musante goerke
9 years ago
Keep soil in organic foods!
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Thomas DeRosa
9 years ago
Keep the soil in organic!
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Laura Wilder
9 years ago
Hydroponics should not be certified as organic! Keep the SOIL in organic.
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Walter Kloefkorn
9 years ago
Organic agriculture is not simply about the absence of industrial pollutants. It is about the presence of a natural web of life that man has co-evolved with for over a million years. This is just an attempt to give even more advantages to industrial practitioners over actual organic farmers.
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Paul Mahre
9 years ago
In the current political climate of less regulation and shifting more decisions to the states, the USDA's NOSB should be looking at ways to allow a state, or a cooperative of states, to deal with hydroponics within their own organic standards and processes. What works for Arizona does not work for Vermont or Washington. That decision could be to deny hydroponics as part of a certified organic agricultural system. That is the state's right, not the USDA's.
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Joan Brownfield
9 years ago
Certified Organic #1 in Washington state. We build our soil and it produces in appreciation
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Gary M Angell
9 years ago
Next thing will be organic chemical .
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Anonymous
9 years ago
Keep organic means organic
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Joan Pfeiffer
9 years ago
USDA-The American consumers deserve the right to choose organic, hence the term must be clearly defined to be geown,with the full benefit of everything soil has to offer. We are only still learning what this means.
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Ricky Knue
9 years ago
Our legacy requires us to be mindful and responsible and leave the Earth better than we came into it-not worse-and bringing our children and subsequent generations into this place should heighten our accountability about feeding them and the habitats the best way possible-soil. No brainer.
No way hydroponic. No way!!! Soil based only. Certified USDA Organic in Northwest Arkansas.
You must have soil to farm organically
As a gardener who has seen her yields grow and pests decrease over the years, I know from firsthand experience that the health of my food is in the health of my soil. Hydroponics cannot simulate real living soil full of microorganisms. Please keep the soil in organic!
Man in all his wisdom still does not understand all the inner workings of plants. Soil is their natural habitat and the interaction between microbes, nutrients and the plants should be maintained for food to be considered organic.
The Montana Organic Association opposed hydroponic growing being certified organic. The NOSB needs to vote in the fall on this!
Removing part of the natural system for plant growth and development, such as removing soil from the equation, removes the plants and what they produce from the right to be called organic.
As an organic farmer, I think that working for a healthy soil is our most important job. New Earth Organic Farm, Colebrook, NH
Hydroponics may be clean, but it is not as nutritious as food grown in truly fertile soil. Calling it "Organic" is very misleading to the public.
Plants get more nutrients out of fertile soil than can be put into water.
Nothing can replace soil
Keep soil in organic foods!
Keep the soil in organic!
Hydroponics should not be certified as organic! Keep the SOIL in organic.
Organic agriculture is not simply about the absence of industrial pollutants. It is about the presence of a natural web of life that man has co-evolved with for over a million years. This is just an attempt to give even more advantages to industrial practitioners over actual organic farmers.
In the current political climate of less regulation and shifting more decisions to the states, the USDA's NOSB should be looking at ways to allow a state, or a cooperative of states, to deal with hydroponics within their own organic standards and processes. What works for Arizona does not work for Vermont or Washington. That decision could be to deny hydroponics as part of a certified organic agricultural system. That is the state's right, not the USDA's.
Certified Organic #1 in Washington state. We build our soil and it produces in appreciation
Next thing will be organic chemical .
Keep organic means organic
USDA-The American consumers deserve the right to choose organic, hence the term must be clearly defined to be geown,with the full benefit of everything soil has to offer. We are only still learning what this means.
Our legacy requires us to be mindful and responsible and leave the Earth better than we came into it-not worse-and bringing our children and subsequent generations into this place should heighten our accountability about feeding them and the habitats the best way possible-soil. No brainer.