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Healthy soil makes healthy plants makes healthy people. – Old organic maxim.

Put most simply, organic is a method of growing food using only naturally occurring substances. Properly done, it recycles all wastes and improves the soil as it increases crop yields. Its goal is to work with nature’s laws and tendencies, rather than to counteract or defeat them. Practitioners of the method conceive of all life in the system as an interrelated whole to be strengthened, rather than as a group of creatures to be selectively supported, suppressed, or eliminated chemically.

Compost—the rotted remains of what was once living tissue—is both the source and destiny of life, and it is the heart and engine of the organic method. It. What was alive dies and decays to form a nourishing seedbed for new life. The concept is as old as life itself. Go into the woods and look closely at the forest floor. You’ll see the leaves and twigs of past years decaying to form a rich, spongy duff that nourishes the trees and plants currently growing there, which will in turn eventually die, decay, and nourish yet another generation of plants. William Shakespeare articulated it well when the Friar in Romeo and Juliet proclaimed: “The Earth that’s Nature’s mother is her tomb/ What is her burying grave, that is her womb.”

Compost is the perfect fertilizer, containing plant and animal remains, which naturally have the elements needed for the construction of new plants and animals. 

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