I may have to join Twitter just to follow Chow Babe.

[Warpy]

1. Organic growing methods have gotten a bad rap because of a few fools

but they do tend to build the soil over time, increasing yields.

My own gardens have been organic (the cats fun to watch when I used fish emulsion) and turned equal amounts of clay and sand into rich soil over a period of a few years.

I've been watching a bunch of UK shows about Mediaeval and Renaissance farming methods. With no herbicides, they just let the weeds grow and some of them were useful indicator species for when a field was ripe enough to harvest, especially hay meadows and wheat, staples for livestock and humans.

Your body can't tell the difference between organically and chemically grown food. You will sequester more crap in your liver from the latter, but that's what your liver is designed to do, store the poisons you can't eliminate.

As the oil dries up, we'll likely have to return to more organic farming methods, so it's great that there are pioneering farmers out there to show the rest how it is done. Otherwise, we'd be pretty hungry in the future.