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["Pete Gasper, Gasper Family Farm" <farmer1@gasperfarm.com>]

I have little faith in this label. I've known of several instances of 
farmers using the label while not certified or admittedly engaging in 
practices contrary to the cert and the organization did nothing.

Principles not paperwork. In the end inspections, paperwork, and 
certifications cannot make up for what is essentially a moral problem. What 
we need is personal integrity amoung farmers and a willingness to act on 
them even if not profitable and be open about ones shortcomings.

Pete

On 08/20/2013 07:04 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
> Makes a lot of sense to me. We were certified organic for 14 years and the
> price for certification went up year after year but our income didn't. We
> could see the time coming that we would need to borrow money to pay for
> certification. The paperwork involved also was no longer doable. That took
> about a month's work for a person every year.
> I know better than most the dangers of using unatural chemical ways and we
> eat our own produce after all. So of course we grow natural.
>
> John, no longer certified
>
> > SCHAGHTICOKE, N.Y.: Certified Naturally Grown: An alternative label to
> > organic | Business | NewsObserver.com
> > http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/17/3114829/naturally-grown-an-alternative.html
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