Organic Gardening - Why Do More and More People Go Organic?
We can find the answer to this question within our common history.
Industrialization, increasing populations and urbanization beginning from the second half of the 18th century (originating from England) resulted in an increasing demand for food.
Famines were taking their tolls on a regular basis back in those days.
The evolution of new technologies made it possible to combat famines and increase food production on a massive scale.
The steam driven plough machine for example, as well as the invention of mineral fertilizers by Justus von Liebig (1803 - 1873, German chemist) and later the use of chemical pesticides made it possible to yield in a higher food supply and feed the hungry masses.
However, the use of synthetic fertilizers and other chemicals created a lot of environmental problems over the centuries.
The effects on our soils and ecosystems were and are still devastating.
Agricultural and horticultural studies show that high applications of synthetic fertilizers result in the following damages to the environment:
Furthermore the monoculture growing method, which grows only one type of crop year in year out on the same piece of ground, has a devastating effect on our ecosystems as well.
Monoculture damages the soil, as only the same specific minerals get absorbed by the monoculture plants.
The soil literally "impoverishes" and dries out.
Soil fertility gets lost.
Monocultures are common to be vulnerable to plant specific pests, which result in higher pesticide and herbicide use, which again harms flora, fauna and us.
All these "modern" and highly technological evolved ways of growing food came out of the necessity to combat hunger in the industrializing countries back in the 18th century.
They were important step stones in the development of our civilisation as we know it today.
However, the side effects caused relevant damages to our ecosystems and put the self regulating power of Mother Nature to a test.
The next logical and almost inevitable step is therefore to find a solution to our man made problem.
The solution presents itself as the opposite polarity of conventional agricultural and horticultural practises - It is the other side of the coin, which works and cooperates with nature and learns from its infinite wisdom.
Organic gardening and farming offers a sustainable and ethical way of growing our food and interacting with Mother Nature so that every new generation can really profit from the benefits.
Organically grown, healthy and wholesome food will nourish generations to come if consumers' and farmers' minds are open for its potential and organic awareness strengthens within the global community...
Now, that is one of many reasons why more and more people turn to organically grown products.
The benefits for us, as a small part of nature, are much more apparent than following "the-cost-what-it-may-approach" of growing our food.
Industrialization, increasing populations and urbanization beginning from the second half of the 18th century (originating from England) resulted in an increasing demand for food.
Famines were taking their tolls on a regular basis back in those days.
The evolution of new technologies made it possible to combat famines and increase food production on a massive scale.
The steam driven plough machine for example, as well as the invention of mineral fertilizers by Justus von Liebig (1803 - 1873, German chemist) and later the use of chemical pesticides made it possible to yield in a higher food supply and feed the hungry masses.
However, the use of synthetic fertilizers and other chemicals created a lot of environmental problems over the centuries.
The effects on our soils and ecosystems were and are still devastating.
Agricultural and horticultural studies show that high applications of synthetic fertilizers result in the following damages to the environment:
- Soil weariness
- Salination
- Water pollution
- Eutrophication
- Soil structure destruction
- Changes in soil fauna lead to reduced crop Higher nitrate concentration in plants (nitrate is reduced to nitrite in human and animal intestine)
Furthermore the monoculture growing method, which grows only one type of crop year in year out on the same piece of ground, has a devastating effect on our ecosystems as well.
Monoculture damages the soil, as only the same specific minerals get absorbed by the monoculture plants.
The soil literally "impoverishes" and dries out.
Soil fertility gets lost.
Monocultures are common to be vulnerable to plant specific pests, which result in higher pesticide and herbicide use, which again harms flora, fauna and us.
All these "modern" and highly technological evolved ways of growing food came out of the necessity to combat hunger in the industrializing countries back in the 18th century.
They were important step stones in the development of our civilisation as we know it today.
However, the side effects caused relevant damages to our ecosystems and put the self regulating power of Mother Nature to a test.
The next logical and almost inevitable step is therefore to find a solution to our man made problem.
The solution presents itself as the opposite polarity of conventional agricultural and horticultural practises - It is the other side of the coin, which works and cooperates with nature and learns from its infinite wisdom.
Organic gardening and farming offers a sustainable and ethical way of growing our food and interacting with Mother Nature so that every new generation can really profit from the benefits.
Organically grown, healthy and wholesome food will nourish generations to come if consumers' and farmers' minds are open for its potential and organic awareness strengthens within the global community...
Now, that is one of many reasons why more and more people turn to organically grown products.
The benefits for us, as a small part of nature, are much more apparent than following "the-cost-what-it-may-approach" of growing our food.
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