Organic Farming

Did you know that in some factory farms, migrant workers who work the fields work with pesticides so deadly that if one grain of certain pesticides drops into their boot, the worker will be dead by morning?

What a daunting fact to consider. That lethal poisons are routinely added to crops and plants to control pests, without so much as a thought of what they will do for the earth and its inhabitants. Not even extensive cleaning of the produce can effectively clean off some slow-acting pesticides.

For this reason combined with other factors, many farmers are turning to organic farming. Organic farming is a gamble for the farm family to undertake. Most farming (at least in the United States) is subsidized by the government.

Down the road from my home is a large farm with over sixty acres. Come spring, the fields are tilled and crops are planted, allowed to grow and then plowed under! It is an incredible waste of a food source, and upon investigating why this is allowed to happen year after year, I found out that this method is practiced in order to control the market prices. The government tells the farmer what to plant, the farmer gets paid to plant the fields, and then what has been planted (generally potatoes or pumpkins) is destroyed after harvest time. But, the farmer has to make a living and this is how he does it.

In organic farming, the farmer respects the land, pays attention to the content of the soil and is careful not to add anything chemical or harmful to the soil or the plants.

Pest control is done naturally and with great thought. Plants thrive and a market is found for organic produce that as of yet, is not subsidized by the government.