| Crop rotation prevents crops from draining the soil of | | | | comparing the nutrient contents of organic and |
| minerals that are needed to grow those crops. Pets | | | | non-organic fruit and vegetables reveals a strong |
| are kept away with natural harmless methods - for | | | | trend towards higher levels in organic produce. |
| example, fruit orchards are kept free of white fly by | | | | Organic produce still has a way to go. It is more |
| introducing beetles that do not eat the fruits and only | | | | expensive than non-organic produce and is not widely |
| eat the fruit flies, while hedgerows encourage the | | | | accessible as it could be. The amount of money that |
| presence of birds and insects, which feed on pests. | | | | the government has put into promoting organic |
| Healthy crops grown on rich soil are also more able | | | | farming is minuscule compared with how much it has |
| to resist disease. The soil used in organic farming is | | | | invested in more modern, hi-tech farming methods. |
| bountiful and fertile in the long term. | | | | Yet organic farming is often best for the consumer, |
| Organically grown food is much better for the health | | | | the farmer and the environment, especially in the long |
| and has more flavor than food produced in an | | | | term. By buying organic when you can, and |
| intensive way because it contains more nutrients, | | | | encouraging your local to promote organic foods, you |
| which have been taken up from the rich soil. The soil | | | | will help improve your own health and that of the |
| in Bama, for example, has been found to be high in | | | | planet. |
| manganese and zinc, and hair analysis tests have | | | | Raw foods are said to be the pinnacle of what you |
| shown that these same minerals are at the right | | | | can put in your body in terms of nutrients, I used a |
| levels for optimum hearth health in the Bama people. | | | | lot of them in making green smoothies, even better |
| According to the Soil Association in the UK, research | | | | would be organically grown foods used in them. |