The Modern Victory Garden

I always thought that the term 'Organic' was - in a food sense - a vegetable or (yes) meat product where the item was grown in a 100% natural environment.  No hormones, no petrol driven fertilizers, no un-natural anything.  The soil should be chemicle free.

If you have a farm in, say, Mexico cranking out ONLY tomatoes year after year on the same acre, depleating the soil, yet adhearing to 'Organic' terms by the book...well...this still doesnt work with me.

And then I read this short article, where the confusion is sill omnipresent.  Sigh.

Im buying Siletz variety this year.  The crazyness must end at some point?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41748

Factory Farmed "organic" - particularly when shipped mega distances to get to my table - just does not do it for me.    I read this article earlier today too and felt sad that something that should be clearly a good choice has become filled with deception.    

The real heart and soul of it though is that to eat a more natural diet requires eating seasonally or making do with preserved items rather than fresh when they are not in season.   Too many people are unwilling to give up "on demand" food regardless of season and so they are ready sources of money for industry that wants to sell you a product wrapped with feel good statements like "organic' on it.  

Grow as much of your food as you can, buy local what you cannot and eat with the seasons and/or what you put by.    If we just did these simple things this current form of marketing deception could not survive or profit.   Sadly though, it does.

I'm reading a book right now thats changed my life.  Thinking LOCAL is a noun and a verb.  There are organic farms in China.  In India too.  But BOTH Organic and Local?   Thats a tall order.

Huzzah!