{"id":460,"date":"2012-02-28T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsu.eventmedialabs.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2014-12-29T18:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T18:08:41","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-organic-more-than-you-may-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-organic-more-than-you-may-think\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to be organic? (more than you may think…)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I recently asked this question “what does organic mean in terms of food choices?” to a random selection of people at the KLCK<\/a> bloggers network meeting and bar one, the answers were varied and general but incorrect.<\/p>\n

Then I overheard a radio interview where the respondent was telling all the listeners about their “fabulous organic garden” and I knew fully well that it wasn’t organic. Chemical free YES, organic NO.<\/p>\n

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Why should it bother me? Is there a different? Well yes there is a difference and quite a big one. When you’re an organic farmer who’s struggling to sell your produce at a higher cost than non-organic, having likely gone through two full years of vigorous testing to achieve your well deserved certification, getting it wrong must be so frustrating! Organic vegetable gardening and certification involves a\u00a0combination of many things\u00a0but many feel worth the time, expense and effort to achieve that status.<\/p>\n

At Greenside Up we teach and garden chemically free, we strive to be as organic as we possibly can and follow as many of the principles listed below as possible. However my seeds aren’t all organically sourced, my manure is from a non-organic neighbouring farmer and my hens aren’t feed organic feeds (though they are GM free). It would be incorrect of me to say that I garden ‘organically’ as that would be an injustice to those who actually do.<\/p>\n

So what does the term ORGANIC mean?<\/h2>\n