Commercial Organic Farms Have Better Fruit and Soil?
ScienceDaily (Sep. 2, 2010) — Side-by-side comparisons of organic and conventional strawberry farms and their fruit found the organic farms produced more flavorful and nutritious berries while leaving the soil healthier and more genetically diverse.
“Our findings have global implications and advance what we know about the sustainability benefits of organic farming systems,” said John Reganold, Washington State University Regents professor of soil science and lead author of a paper published in the peer-reviewed online journal, PLoS ONE. “We also show you can have high quality, healthy produce without resorting to an arsenal of pesticides.”
The study is among the most comprehensive of its kind, analyzing 31 chemical and biological soil properties, soil DNA, and the taste, nutrition and quality of three strawberry varieties on more than two dozen commercial fields — 13 conventional and 13 organic. read more
Comments
Awesome blog I have your rss subscribed, thanks alot
Darron Muegge
September 7th, 2010
Excellent webpage and appreciation for making this article. I’m a every day reader and I suspected you should know that you’re a pretty great writer.
Lincoln Buscaglia
September 28th, 2010
This is a really well written post.
Randee Roumeliotis
October 20th, 2010
This website has greatly helped me. I will comeback again. The information written here are amazing. Please update this site with new details.
Sanda Delasko
October 25th, 2010
Great recommendation!! I recently come across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my beginning comment. I don’t know what toletexcept that I have enjoyed reading. Scrupulous blog. I will keep visiting this blog very again.
Shelby Sammis
October 30th, 2010