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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Is Organic a Big Scam?

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Everyone automatically assumes organic produce is better...but is it true? The real answer is more complex than you might think. Jared from Upcycle is back to share his perspective on OMRI and organic certifications. More About Upcycle Native Soil Fertilizer: Upcycle & Company Buy Native Soil Fertilizer Keep Growing, Kevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back. Day two with Jared of Upcycle and today we're

0:04.7

talking about something that is probably going to spark a little debate between

0:08.6

maybe me and Jared. Probably not. I think we share similar views on this but maybe maybe you and someone else and

0:15.0

Jared probably not I think we share similar views on this but maybe you and someone else that you know in the

0:16.4

gardening world the farming world and that is does it make sense to be certified

0:21.9

organic or what are maybe some bad things

0:24.5

about being certified organic?

0:25.6

Because I think all the time we hear about organic produce

0:28.7

automatically being better than conventionally grown produce.

0:32.2

And I think that's a bit of a simplification

0:35.0

that does not consider all of the issues at hand and so something that I'd like to share is let's say I'm walking around the farmers market down here in San Diego,

0:44.9

there's actually quite a bit of growers that do not advertise their product as organic

0:49.8

and they do that for a specific reason.

0:52.0

And when I ask them they have a lot to say about it.

0:54.5

So I'm going to let Jared hop in here for a second

0:56.4

and talk about some of the pros to organic growing

0:59.8

and organic certifications

1:01.0

and maybe some of the things that people don't know about as some of the

1:03.4

downsides or the dark sides of it.

1:07.1

Hey Kevin, thanks for having me back again today.

1:09.5

To start the conversation about organic, I'd like to make a distinction. There's organic matter

1:14.1

which is leaves it's bits of bark it's leftover food scraps from your vegetables and

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