Hello All,
While at the National Small Farm Today trade show this weekend I was able to
talk with an organic group which would certify honey organic.

Midwest Organic Farmers Coop.

Membership fee $2000 (U.S.)

www.midwestorganic.com

I talked to the rep for a few minutes but realized he was not very informed
on honey certification so moved on.

He became very defensive when I told him that a person could legally say his
product was produced by *organic methods* but not *certified organic*. He
said the word organic could not be used even in a sentance talking about a
product. My brother is a lawyer and we had a big laugh over his statement.

After all in the listing of resource information at the USDA,ARS website a
list of 412 publications on "organic " production are listed.

Alternative Farming Systems information Center
National Agriculture Library. USDA.ARS
10301 Baltimore Ave., Room 132
Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2351

Ask for Organic : A Guide to Resources
1989-Sept. 2004
Compiled by Stephanie M. Boehmer


One can not now claim his/her product is "organic" without cetification (I
have been told in the U.S.)but the telling of people you have *tried* to
follow "organic" standards you read about in one of over 400 publications on
the subject is quite legal I have been advised!

For history buffs:
The term "organic farming" was FIRST printed in the 1940 publication "Look
to the Land" by Lord Northbourne (London, England).

The term "organic Gardening" first appeared in print in 1942 in founding the
publication by J.I. Rodale:
"Organic Gardening and farming"

Bob

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