Food Integrity

How is our Organic Produce grown?

At Coochin Hills Organics, living soil is the foundation for growing healthy plants and minerally rich produce. We encourage Beneficial Microbes, which work symbiotically with the plants root systems, providing a natural source of food for our plants. When the plants receive their food in this way, they are much stronger and healthier. Strong healthy plants resist pest and disease problems. Strong and Healthy plants also produce food that makes us Strong and Healthy.

Organic Produce is grown to a very strict Organic Standard. Growers are audited anually to ensure compliance to this standard. Organic Growers also have their produce spot checked (ie taken at any time from a wholesaler or retailer) and tested for any residual chemicals.

How is Conventional Produce grown?

Conventionally grown produce uses artificial chemical fertilisers as the food source for plant growth. The soil is usually fumigated to kill any living thing proior to planting. Basically the function of the soil in a Conventional growing system is to hold the plant upright. Contrast this with the importance of soil for Organic Farming Systems, and you will begin to see that the differences between growing Organically and growing Conventionally is profound.

Chemical fertilisers provide nutrient as water soluble salts. This results in weak plants that are dependant on chemical sprays to ‘protect’ the crops from insect pests and diseases. No matter how well you wash the vegetables before cooking, you will still end up with harmful residues on your food. In fact, modern chemicals used in farming can be 'Systemic', meaning they enter the plants system and become a part of the food itself. Try Washing That Off!

Why do we need extra minerals in our food?

It is a fact that intensive farming has depleted many of our soils of essential trace and minor nutrients that the body requires in order to be healthy.

Conventional farming systems concentrate on supplying only 12 different nutrients to the plant i.e. nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, calcium (major elements), sulphur, magnesium (secondary elements), and then zinc, copper, boron, iron, manganese (trace elements), and sometimes molybdenum.

Growing using enhanced soil biology delivers the full range of nutrients in our crops as well as high levels of trace minerals.

What’s a GMO?

A Genetically Modified Organism is an organism (plant) that has had a gene transferred from one plant species to another so that the plant is able to do things that it wouldn’t naturally be able to do e.g Monsanto (designers of Round Up) have introduced a gene into certain crops eg cotton, soyabeans, canola, maize so that the crop can be sprayed with Round Up (very systemic i.e. moves within the plant) without effecting the crop, but instead kills the weeds around the crop. These guys don’t seem to be "aware" that these crops are being fed to humans!

Do you guarantee against GMOs?

Absolutely!

We will guarantee it. We are absolutely, completely, absolutely against GMO’s. In fact, these companies often argue that by using GMO’s they will get higher yields and be able to feed more people. However, if our soils were cared for correctly, then no-one would have to go hungry because we would be able to grow lots of food (treat the cause not the symptom).

The other reason that people go hungry is because of political agendas that stop the food being distributed to where it is needed. GMO’s have much more to do with these big companies controlling the world’s food production for their purposes.

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