Soil association/Mark Thomas Slightly OT for Graham...

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, " pctalking " <pctalking@h...> wrote:

> I caught the end of the program, and as much as I like some of

Mark

> Thomas's stuff, I sometimes think he get's a bit carried away on

> minor things.

>

> Yeah, sure, it's not great news the supermarkets will label stuff

> organic, even though the seeds that it is grown from are not, but

> from a consumption point of view, unless the organic crops are

grown

> in a sterile vacuum, they will probably absorb much more

pollutants

> from the air than they will from any residue of a coated seed.

 

Until the last couple of years or so, certified organic seed (that

is seed that could be guaranteed to have originated from parent

plants that had been raised organically) has been very hard to come

by, ceratinly that has been the case for the home growers market,

and I believe that it was also the case for commercial growers. This

is however beginning to change- HDRA/Chase now do quite a bit of

stuff that is organic in their home gardeners catalogue, as do Tamar

& I suspect Kings (esp as nearly all the home market seed originates

from Kings anyway!).

However, raising and growing organic plants from seed that might not

be of organic origin has never been much of a problem AFAIK, but

this is a different proposition from raising plants from seed that

has been chemically treated and dressed with artificial fungicides,

etc... however I didn't see MT's program so am not quite sure what

the charges are that he levelled against them... I do know, as I

pointed out before, that there are quite a number of people who

question the validity of Soil association accreditation, not least

as Mark Fisher pointed out, that they seem to be rigidly wedded to

specific but not always appropriate agricultural systems & dogma.

 

Cheers BSG

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Graham --

Innumerable mercis to you for your detailed responses to my queries. I am going to do plenty research on VON, because that's so obviously the best way.

Someone from work recorded the MT prog, so I could try to make a copy for you if you like. Lemme know.

Thanks so much, again. I can't tell you how appreciative I am! ))

 

xk@x

 

quercusrobur2002 [grahamburnett]01 April 2002 23:13 Subject: Soil association/Mark Thomas Re: Slightly OT for Graham...Until the last couple of years or so, certified organic seed (that is seed that could be guaranteed to have originated from parent plants that had been raised organically) has been very hard to come by, ceratinly that has been the case for the home growers market, and I believe that it was also the case for commercial growers. This is however beginning to change- HDRA/Chase now do quite a bit of stuff that is organic in their home gardeners catalogue, as do Tamar & I suspect Kings (esp as nearly all the home market seed originates from Kings anyway!).However, raising and growing organic plants from seed that might not be of organic origin has never been much of a problem AFAIK, but this is a different proposition from raising plants from seed that has been chemically treated and dressed with artificial fungicides, etc... however I didn't see MT's program so am not quite sure what the charges are that he levelled against them... I do know, as I pointed out before, that there are quite a number of people who question the validity of Soil association accreditation, not least as Mark Fisher pointed out, that they seem to be rigidly wedded to specific but not always appropriate agricultural systems & dogma. Cheers BSG~~ info ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Please remember that the above is only the opinion of the author, there may be another side to the story you have not heard.---------------------------Was this message Off Topic? Did you know? Was it snipped?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Guidelines: visit <site temporarily offline>Un: send a blank message to -