Hydroponics is a method of growing but it should not be called certified organic!
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Thea Carlson
9 years ago
Healthy soil is an essential component of healthy organic agriculture. The holistic and diverse microbiome found in living healthy soil is the foundation of the health and nutritional quality of organic crops, and cannot be replicated in a hydroponic system. The NOSB has a responsibility to uphold the integrity of organic and provide standards that reflect truly ecologically based agriculture. I urge you to require soil-based growing for organic certification.
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BRUCE BURNHAM
9 years ago
I think the "organic" label needs to be tightly controlled to promote the highest level of human health to be had from soil-nurtured produce.
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Renee Russell
9 years ago
The definition of 'organic' should only include processes that are natural. Hydroponic agriculture is not natural.
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Jon-Paul Dupuis
9 years ago
I believe in my worms
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Lesli Dalaba
9 years ago
Healthy soil is essential to human life & health on this planet, yet soil erosion
continues unabated. Organic farmers are essential to keep healthy soil on this planet. This is why I buy organic. Please keep the soil in "organic".
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Aleta Ellsworth
9 years ago
The label "Organic" needs more than just soil. It needs "Healthy Soil" as a part of its definition.
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Diana Horan
9 years ago
Organic agriculture is based on improving the fertility of the soil.
No Hydroponics Certified As Organic.
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R Keith Morris
9 years ago
I agree.....NO HYDROPONICS !!! It's really organic without soil !!!
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Steve Deibele
9 years ago
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Do not allow organic certification for hydroponics productions. The hydroponics producers can market their products separately, and go through the education of their customers and offer production transparency as requested. Organics imply soil.
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Marleen Cenotti
9 years ago
Organic farming is all about the soil! Keep hydroponics out if the conversation
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Oolaa
9 years ago
I grow organic produce. I work hard @ amending the soil with compost from the produce I've planted. Hydro is not the same
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Harald Hoven
9 years ago
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As an organic farmer, I am constantly working on improving the soil. It is my pride to recycle all organic waste into compost and give it back to the earth. This is why people buy my produce. Hydroponics is not the same! Don't allow it to be certified as organic!
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Cathie Ernst
9 years ago
Keep the soil organic. It should be my choice. This hydroponics is not Organic and should NOT carry that label. Support constituents NOT big biz.
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Vicki
9 years ago
Keeping the soil organic is a huge investment and lot of work. Please don't ruin that for the people who have invested their lives in providing clean food for us and for those of us who they do it for.
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Stephen Graham
9 years ago
Keep the soil in organics. No hydroponics certified as organic.
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Connor Eller
9 years ago
There is no Organic without soil.
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xenia duranovic
9 years ago
We must get the food the way that God intended it - from soil!
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Brian Stroffolino
9 years ago
Organic means naturally derived, not artificially created. Keep the soil in Organic.
Hydroponics is a method of growing but it should not be called certified organic!
Healthy soil is an essential component of healthy organic agriculture. The holistic and diverse microbiome found in living healthy soil is the foundation of the health and nutritional quality of organic crops, and cannot be replicated in a hydroponic system. The NOSB has a responsibility to uphold the integrity of organic and provide standards that reflect truly ecologically based agriculture. I urge you to require soil-based growing for organic certification.
I think the "organic" label needs to be tightly controlled to promote the highest level of human health to be had from soil-nurtured produce.
The definition of 'organic' should only include processes that are natural. Hydroponic agriculture is not natural.
I believe in my worms
Healthy soil is essential to human life & health on this planet, yet soil erosion continues unabated. Organic farmers are essential to keep healthy soil on this planet. This is why I buy organic. Please keep the soil in "organic".
The label "Organic" needs more than just soil. It needs "Healthy Soil" as a part of its definition.
Organic agriculture is based on improving the fertility of the soil. No Hydroponics Certified As Organic.
I agree.....NO HYDROPONICS !!! It's really organic without soil !!!
Do not allow organic certification for hydroponics productions. The hydroponics producers can market their products separately, and go through the education of their customers and offer production transparency as requested. Organics imply soil.
Organic farming is all about the soil! Keep hydroponics out if the conversation
I grow organic produce. I work hard @ amending the soil with compost from the produce I've planted. Hydro is not the same
As an organic farmer, I am constantly working on improving the soil. It is my pride to recycle all organic waste into compost and give it back to the earth. This is why people buy my produce. Hydroponics is not the same! Don't allow it to be certified as organic!
Keep the soil organic. It should be my choice. This hydroponics is not Organic and should NOT carry that label. Support constituents NOT big biz.
Keeping the soil organic is a huge investment and lot of work. Please don't ruin that for the people who have invested their lives in providing clean food for us and for those of us who they do it for.
Keep the soil in organics. No hydroponics certified as organic.
There is no Organic without soil.
We must get the food the way that God intended it - from soil!
Organic means naturally derived, not artificially created. Keep the soil in Organic.
Please keep organics the way nature intended!