From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

At its most fundamental level, I guess I always thought it meant vegetables grown in the

fields of an organic farm like in the soil, where animals raised in its pastures.

But increasingly as hydroponics have become more widespread, soil isn't always part of

the organic food raising equation.

More about what organic means in a moment, but first this message.

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Today's guest is Lynley Dixon, a Colorado-based organic farmer who's also co-director of

the Real Organic Project, an advocacy organization of farmers who grow in the soil and together

seek to protect the integrity

of the organic labels meaning on food. Real organic project is holding a day-long conference

October 14th in Hudson New York with a great lineup of presenters from the organic community

and we'll hear about that too. Highland Lee, thanks for coming in from the greenhouses and the

fields to help and talk to me about this. Thank you. Hi Margaret. I've been a long time fan of the podcast and your writings.

Yeah. So, you know, again, you'd think I would know these things, having been kind of a vegetarian

most of my life and having been a consumer of organic products forever and ever and so forth.

You'd think I would certainly be alerted, but until

talking to you over recent years, you know, I really didn't understand the

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