What makes organic produce different from conventionally grown produce?
The term ‘organic’ is usually taken to mean a food that has been produced without artificial fertilizers and that has not been subject to treatment with synthetic pesticides or growth promoters of any type, including hormones and antibiotics. Organic farming is also married to the notion that healthy soil is the not only the medium in which our crops thrive, but that the very health of that soil is the the responsibility of every organic farmer to promote sustainable agriculture. Conventional farming techniques either ignore, or tend to be less sensitive to, consumer concerns over the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, growth hormones (GMOs), and the responsible husbandry of the very soil that that feeds us all.
