Organic Farmers Gaining Ground
The Hartford Courant has a piece online titled Organic Farmers Gaining Ground. It’s encouraging to see such growth in that part of the country.
Snippet:
Twenty years ago there were, maybe, 50 farmers growing organically in Connecticut. There may well be over 200 today, and there is every indication that they can barely meet the demand for the food they produce without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides and free of growth hormones, irradiation and genetic engineering.
“There certainly has been a growth in small-scale agriculture in Connecticut, a dramatic growth,” said Bill Duesing, the executive director of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut, which sponsored the conference. Not only are there more organic farmers, he said, but many of them have expanded operations, producing more kinds of food. Moreover, an increasing number of organic farmers have gone from part time to full time, he said.
Good news indeed.
