The Advantages
Advantages for Farmers
- Farming as a Career offers a clear path to success
- Marketing and operational support allows farmers to focus on what they love– growing
- Individuals can work cooperatively within a system that values the craft inherent in “deep organic” farming
- Effective new innovations in low impact technologies reduce the drudgery of repetitive tasks and the toll on the body of years bent over
Advantages for the Farm
- Profits flow from restorative, healthy, and sustainable practice
- Effective new innovations in low impact technologies increase efficiency while reducing unhealthy labor practices, keeping farm workers happy and engaged
- Increased soil fertility, a better natural balance, and healthier products
Advantages for Consumers
- Consumers receive great tasting naturally grown food and farm products
- Clear health benefits from higher nutritional value and no chemical residue
- High quality products at a fair price
- Long term Food Security
- Support for local growers and the craft of artisanal farming across the North East
- Knowing where the food comes from and who grew it
Advantages to the Environment
- Better carbon sequestration because organics sequester more carbon than conventional industrial farming methods
- A radical reduction in petroleum based pesticides and herbicides
- Introduction of high biomass crops that sequester carbon effectively
- Reduced impact on Global Warming