Boggy Creek Farm shows us how to farm organic
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VVH-Tv News Unique Organic Farming: Can It Feed Us? Component 1 Karl Grossman Chief Investigative Reporter examines Organic Farming on Eastern Long Island. What is organic farming? Organic farming can be defined as an strategy to agriculture where the aim is to develop integrated, humane, environmentally and economically sustainable agricultural production systems. Maximum reliance is placed on locally or farm-derived renewable resources and the management of self-regulating ecological and biological processes and interactions in order to supply acceptable levels of crop, livestock and human nutrition, protection from pests and diseases, and an proper return to the human and other resources employed. Reliance on external inputs, whether chemical or organic, is lowered as far as achievable. In several European countries, organic agriculture is recognized as ecological agriculture, reflecting this reliance on ecosystem management rather than external inputs. The objective of sustainability lies at the heart of organic farming and is 1 of the main aspects figuring out the acceptability or otherwise of particular production practices. The term ‘sustainable’ is utilised in its widest sense, to encompass not just conservation of non-renewable resources (soil, power, minerals) but also problems of environmental, financial and social sustainability. The term ‘organic’ is very best thought of as referring to the notion of the farm as an organism, in which all the component components – the soil minerals …