"Organic" Farming and the True Cost of Food-A Small Farmers Perspective

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73. Back when organic potatoes were $ 4 a lb, I bought some as a joke

This was probably around 1993.

I wanted to prove to myself that the "Trendy" People of Marin didn't know that conventional food and organic food ain't that much different.

Well, did I get surprised. I found the potatoes cooked up very quickly. Then because of my excitement over the "organic" experiment, I realized how I hadn't bought any butter.

I mashed the potatoes, and unlike the conventional potatoes I had known and hated since around 1980 something, these "Fluffed" up exactly as my mom had fluffed hers back in the fifties.

And they tasted light and creamy -- like they were smothered in butter. Even though they only had a small dab from what was left over before my shopping trips.

I instantly became an organic convert. My only consideration in terms of "Conventional food" possibly being as good as "organic food" is when someone at Farmers' Market tells me they are in the last stage of getting approved - that nothing has been sprayed on their property for some two years. Then I can't say I notice a difference.

Also, I found out I am not allergic to apples -- I just can't have apples that are sprayed with the typical apple pesticides.