For Happiness

In the recent times in the wake of the problems that farmers are facing on various counts including decreasing yields from their farms and increasing debts in the conventional mould of farming, there have been experiments and documented success with returning to traditional methods of farming.

Organic Farmers Work in Harmony with Nature. The commitment of organic farming to crop rotation, living soil, companion planting, rural enterprise, pure water and sustainable agriculture is, in itself, a critical step toward protecting our environment and our individual health. By buying organic, you provide a marketplace for growers who have made the future of our planet a top priority. It supports a better and more content social fabric where everyone is provided for and leads to happier lives for all.

For Harmony

By using chemical fertilizers that enrich the soil with only the major minerals like Potassium, Phosphorus etc instead of more than fifteen that the soil really needs, we are in fact depleting the soil more than enriching it. Over a period of time, the soil is robbed of its fertility and is unable to yield the same crop for the same quantity of fertilizers. That sets off a vicious cycle of adding more and more fertilizer to the soil by the season and depleting it like never before.

Organic farming systems use a variety of natural processes to enhance the health of crops and the soil and reduce the incidence of pests, diseases and weeds, thereby minimizing the need for chemical inputs.

Sustainable Crop Rotations: Effective crop rotations are fundamental to both fertility and pest and disease control in organic farming. Rotations provide an obstacle to pest and disease life cycles by removing crops for prolonged periods of time.

Maintenance of Biodiversity: Crop rotation also creates a more diverse ecosystem which helps to build populations of a pest’s natural predators. The encouragement and enhancement of biological cycles within the farming system is one of the fundamental principles of organic agriculture. Avoiding biocides, maintaining diverse habitats and supporting microbiologically rich soils all encourage inherent biological protection within the system.

Optimum Crop Health and Vigour: Microbial activity within the soil is vital to provide the range and quantity of nutrients required by the crop, enabling the plant to maximize its ability to combat pest and pathogen attack. A number of studies have found pest densities to be higher on crops fed with inorganic nitrogen fertilizer compared to those fed with compost and manure.

Composting and Good Hygiene: Composting serves two important purposes: it builds and maintains organic matter levels in the soil (enhancing soil microbial communities) and removes pests, weed seeds and pathogens. The role of compost in suppressing disease is also becoming more apparent. Good crop hygiene, such as the removal and destruction of crop debris, is important to clear potential reservoirs of pests and diseases.

According to the Economic & Social Research Council, Global Environmental Change Programme, 1999, pollution of air and water is found to be reduced on organic farms, soil health improves, and the number and variety of wild species, such as plants, butterflies and spiders is enhanced.

Not just this, animal welfare is taken very seriously under organic standards. Going organic is the best way to live in harmony with nature and protect this planet.

No Exposure To Carcinogens

The FDA approved many pesticides before research linked them to chemicals that cause cancer and other diseases. Now the EPA considers 60% of all herbicides, 90% of all fungicides, and 30% of all insecticides to be carcinogenic. The bottom line is that pesticides are poisons made to kill living creatures, and can also be harmful to humans. The average child is exposed to four times as many cancer-causing pesticides in their daily lives compared to an adult.

But Organic foods contain no such carcinogenic pesticides and hence should be the obvious choice when it comes to securing our health for the future.

Protecting The Coming Generations

Because of the intrusive farming methods that we have used in the past years, today, exposure to chemicals begins in the womb itself. Cord blood brings not only nutrients and oxygen to the developing child, but also many potentially harmful chemicals including mercury, contaminants from flame retardants, Teflon, organochlorine pesticides, food wraps, wood preservatives and varnishes, by-products of plastic production, and industrial insulators and lubricants.

Pesticides also contain various persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that rather than being flushed out of our bodies, attach themselves to fatty tissues in humans and accumulate. Those fatty tissues are a source of nutrients for mother's milk, so as a mother's body calls on its reserves of fat for lactation, the pollutants go along for the ride, invading mother's milk, and in turn, the baby.

All this exposure to pesticides puts an entire generation ahead of us at serious health risk and switching to an organic diet significantly reduces this pre-natal and neonatal exposure to harmful chemicals.

No Chemical Pesticides

Over 400 chemical pesticides are routinely used in conventional farming and residues are often present in non-organic food. The UK government has recently found high levels of pesticide residues in baby food, spinach, dried fruit, bread, apples, celery, and chips. The average conventionally-grown apple has 20-30 artificial poisons on its skin, even after rinsing.

Organic produce is not covered in a cocktail of such poisonous chemicals.

No GM

Genetically modified (GM) crops and ingredients are not allowed under organic standards. Organic foods are grown as nature had meant for them to be grown and they bring the goodness of nature straight to your dining table.