Organics

What’s a job you would like to do for just one day?

For one day and one day only, I would like to work on an organic farm. I imagine it’s A LOT of hard physical work.

In the 80s before organic was a known thing I joined an organic co-op. Even the other co-op members hardly knew what it was about. I loved going out there with my kids, picking vegetables and ‘volunteering’ in the early summer evenings. They played Mozart to the flourishing plants, so we would be surrounded in green beautiful bliss. It was an experimental thing and the farmers were all very passionate about making it work. Which it seemed to, but no one else seemed to be too interested. We were always the only people besides the tired, dirt caked farmers we ever saw at the farm.

Soociety has come a long way. Farmers markets are busy places now, and organic produce is everywhere. I know I only have an small inking about how hard it is for these small farms to grow plants without chemicals, but I thoroughly appreciate them. Vegetables taste better, it all feels so much healthier for allof us. I know there are controversial aspects now that money and regulation are involved, but I still salute the efforts of passionate small farm farmers and feel grateful for their efforts.