Boggy Creek Farm shows us how to farm organic
VVH-Tv News Special Organic Farming: Can It Feed Us? Part 1 Karl Grossman Chief Investigative Reporter examines Organic Farming on Eastern Long Island. What is organic farming? Organic farming can be defined as an approach to agriculture exactly where the aim is to produce 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 offer acceptable levels of crop, livestock and human nutrition, protection from pests and ailments, and an suitable return to the human and other resources employed. Reliance on external inputs, whether chemical or organic, is decreased as far as achievable. In numerous European nations, 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 one of the key variables determining 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, energy, minerals) but also concerns of environmental, financial and social sustainability. The term ‘organic’ is very best believed of as referring to the concept of the farm as an organism, in which all the component components – the soil minerals …
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