As it happens, in the past two days I've spent time speaking with two
different growers in the process of obtaining organic certification.

One was trying to get certification for a mandarin and hops farm.  He was
told by the certifier that if there was a single telephone pole in any
remote corner of his property, that that would kill the possibility of
certification, due to the creosote on the pole (I haven't checked his
statement for factuality).

The other has managed to get certification for his long-time vegetable
farm.  The experience left him angry and disillusioned.  He considers
certification to be an expensive "tax" and paperwork burden upon him in
order to put the work "organic" upon his unchanged product (although he
still couldn't sell any honey produced on the land as "organic").

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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