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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sorta OT - update on our organic certification process (...
  • Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 15:40:01 -0400



On May 13, 2012, at 12:54 PM, KAKerby AT aol.com wrote:

 I was shocked at the level of ignorance on what the program was all about, particularly amongst folks who freely used the word "organic" in their marketing (without being certified).  


That is indeed a problem. 

There are people who fully understand "organic" but who are not certified, either because their markets don't require formal certification and they don't want to pay the fees when there's no benefit to their particular farm, or because they have philosophical problems with the USDA and may themselves actually be following stricter standards.

But there are also a lot of people who have no idea either what the standards are, or why they are the standards; and while some of these people are opposed to organic without understanding it, some of them claim to actually be organic without understanding it. I have run into such people who had never read any modern standards; and who, when I offered them a recent copy of mine, weren't interested in reading them.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale






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