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  • From: "Ava Devenport" <essenheal AT iname.com>
  • To: market-farming
  • Subject: Re: organic corn (fwd)
  • Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 17:41:4


On 05/19/00, ""delannw" <delannw AT dlogue.net>" wrote:
> Facinating discussion here on organic sweet corn. I was told by an
> extension agent two years ago, that organic sweet corn had to have worms.
> That, he claimed, was the 'test' or expectation for organically grown corn.
> If there weren't any worms, he said, then it being organic was questioned.
>
The only reason they look for worms, insects, etc. is the fact that it's an
easy "visual", means the food is "alive". It doesn't mean that if there
are no worms, etc., that it has been chemically treated, just makes their
job a little harder.

> I was dumbfounded. Told him I didn't have worm problems in my organic
> sweet corn. He didn't believe me.

If he didn't believe you, he's not a good extension agent as there are many
"natural chemicals" within the organic world that can repel insects without
altering the food.
>
> Of course, that was the consistent message during the master gardener
> training sessions. The extension educators for fruits and vegetables gave
> us lots of disgusting examples of produce that was "organically grown" and
> urged us not to do it. That seems to have been toned down a bit in the last
> year.
>
I'll take the "ugly" produce that has swarms of gnats, flies, brown spots,
misshappen shapes, etc., versus the grocery store produce that has been so
"artificially chemical" treated that no living thing can survive! Live
food equals live bodies!

Blessings,
Ava
> Del Williams
> Farmer in the Del
> Clifton IL




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