1. How much trust can one instill into a Government owned and operated food label such as certified organic? We provide our customers with the opportunity to trust their own eyes, ears, nose and mouth when it comes to their food since one, our farm is open to the public; and two, we only sell our products locally. When it comes down to it, who would you trust more: yourself or the government?

2. The only guarantee certified organic provides is that food inputs are “clean in nature;” no synthetic chemicals or no poisons were used in the production of said product. We don’t feel that is much of an accomplishment! As a bare minimum, poisons should not be used in food production! Guaranteeing no poisons were used is a good first step though stopping there is not good enough. Of course we don’t use poisons to produce our food products; what’s more we’re also extremely concerned with and guarantee our customers that the quality of life, quality of the end product, nutritional content, freshness and taste are superior to those that are just certified organic.

3. The armor and the aura that initially surrounded Organic has been steadily eroded by larger companies wanting a “piece of the pie.” These companies, most of which being the reasons the Organic label came to be and gained popularity due to growers and consumers demanding a higher standard of food production, have used their gigantic economic advantages to, unfortunate as it may be, successfully remove bits and pieces of the soul of what the original organic movement once stood for. Most noticeably and recent, the certified organic label now allows growers to use Genetically Modified Organisms in certified organic food production. Scary, huh? So much for purity.