It’s an interesting discussion here. I also think, for those who think it’s unfair that conventional to organic farmers need three years to allow the soil to recover but hydroponic farmers dont need to worry about this…are hydroponic farmers required to study the effect of the water they use in their system? Where they source it, how they dispose of it?

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    • @MiscreantMuse
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      To me, the question is how nutritious are the resulting produce?

      There are a multitude of reasons traditional farming produces more nourishing crops, and there’s no way hydroponic methods offer parity.

      At least they may have less, or less harmful, pesticides, but who knows what presently-unconsidered chemicals hydroponic systems are introducing into the equation.

    • MetawishOP
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      A good point to make too, and agreed

    • @Slatlun
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      I think the author makes a pretty strong philosophical comparison when they talk about some farmers focusing on what Organic is (eg building soil) and others focusing on what it isn’t (eg pesticides).

      Regulations are easier to build around the latter because ‘No Round-up’ is easier to enforce than ‘Improve the soil’, but I would argue that the harder to define values to the ecosystem are the spirit of what Organic should mean. To me it should be about creating a system that is giving back at least as much as is added in. I don’t know anything about Organic hydroponics, but my expectation is that it will be much harder to implement it in a way that props up the surrounding natural communities.

      What other values did I miss? What makes Organic what it is to you? What would make you lose or gain trust in the certification?