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Organic Food: Hydroponic & Aquaponic Produce Approved

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It’s official, hydroponic and aquaponic produce can legally be certified as organic food. A ruling that no doubt brought an immense sigh of relief from a number of already certified farms who use these methods to grow their products. The Crops Subcommittee sent down a final formal recommendation to ban anything grown with hydroponic, aquaponic,…

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Loss Surprises After tallying the annual bee colony losses from Winter 2014-2015, it became clear that US beekeepers fared far better than the previous year with only 1 in 5 hives being wiped out, instead of the 1 in 3 experienced the previous year. But it emerged that far more bees died over the summer…
November 20, 2015
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Is Aquaponics Organic?

Did you know there’s a battle forming over organic hydroponic certification? Organic dirt farmers don’t think aquaponics or hydroponics qualifies, and in recent weeks called the USDA on the carpet because the head of the official organics program qualified aquaponic and hydroponic produce as ‘organic’ – opening the window to USDA Certification for soilless growers.…
May 15, 2015
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