Why Organic? Ask any consumer and the answer will probably be chemical residues on their food. This is a legitimate concern. Wash your produce - even your organic produce. Food is grown outside in the ground, not in a sterile lab. It gets handled by many people, in many situations, in and out of the grower's control. But all of our food supply is amazingly safe, considering conditions elsewhere on the planet.

Organically grown vegetables mean: no use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, fungicides or fertilizers. It means processing and repacking facilities also must be certified. It means fields and facilities are inspected by an independant certifier annually. This certifier has the power to issue a certification, qualify the certification, or revoke the certification. Any vendor of certified organic produce should be able to aquire a current certificate. All of our customers have our certificates on file.

Why organic? Ask any farmer and it will have more to do with what he sees in his land every day. Maybe it occured to him as he unloaded the bags and bags of fertillizer. Maybe he saw the wind drifting chemical spray into the yard where his children played. But at some point the farmer decided he needed to take care of the land so it would comtinue in health on its own. The land is not just a substrate to which we add things and remove things. It is a living organism. Most organic farmers take the land and their care very personally. Tom's famous invective against a farmer was that "he has no emotional attachment to the crop!"

Your best investment in buying organically grown food is helping to maintain the farm acreage that produces it. This is your enviroment being stewarded carefully so it is sustainable in the future. The source of your food, the land in someone's neighborhood, your water resource full of run off from many fields upstream. The Native American sentiment "We are all related" is more and more evident in the connections between us and the results of our actions down the road.