ORGANIC - RESOURCES
Live Healthy, Live Organic
“If you do just one thing—make one conscious choice—that can change the world, go organic. Buy organic food. Stop using chemicals and start supporting organic farmers. No other single choice you can make to improve the health of your family and the planet will have greater positive repercussions for our future.”—Maria Rodale
Organic food is simply food grown the way it used to be. Today, the majority of food crops are engineered with chemicals and sprayed with pesticides and herbicides. Organics are more nutritious and delicious, just the way nature intended. Eating organically grown food benefits our health. It’s good for the people who eat it. It’s good for the people who grow it. And it’s good for the people who live downstream and downwind of the organic farms that grow it.
Organic matter is the lifeblood of fertile, productive, healthy soil. And soil is the lifeblood of our planet.
“We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.”
Here are some excellent organizations working to promote and provide organic solutions.
Organic Farmers Association has a mission to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers.
Snipes Farm & Education Center in Morrisville, PA, U.S. has a mission to model and teach sustainable farming, while building community and reconnecting people to the land. We filmed here for our Organic song-film.
Northeast Organic Farming Association is a coalition of seven state chapters. Their purpose is to advocate for and educate on organic and sustainable agriculture, family-scale farming, and homesteading in rural, suburban and urban areas, agricultural justice and other related policy issues.
Pennsylvania Sustainable Agriculture a Pennsylvania has promoted sustainable agriculture association since 1992. Their vision is of a world where agriculture nourishes, heals, and empowers. Their missions is to cultivate environmentally sound, economically viable, community-focused farms and food systems.
Midwest Organic Services Association promotes organic integrity through practical, reliable, and friendly certification services.
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association is a broad-based community that educates about and advocates for organic agriculture, illuminating its interdependence with a healthy environment, local food production, and thriving communities.
The Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont promotes organic practices to build an economically viable, ecologically sound and socially just Vermont agricultural system that benefits all living things.
Community Supported Agriculture supports real food, real farmers, and real community.
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
Conservation International protects the nature we all rely on for food, fresh water, and livelihoods.
Friends of the Earth fights for a healthier and just world. They speak truth to power and expose those who endanger the health of people and the planet for corporate profit. They organize to build long-term political power and campaign to change the rules of economic and political systems that create injustice and destroy nature.
Committee on Sustainability Assessment helps organizations understand sustainability with easy and credible, science-based solutions.