Holistic/Organic Farming

There are basically three types of commercial farming; Industrial farming or chemical intensive farming, i.e. the vast quantities produced and sold in the food super markets, organic farming which has over the last 20 years grown in popularity by the general public as they become better educated about food and the quality coefficient and there is Hydroponic and Aeroponic.  Each having its own “quality” attribute – industrial and hydroponic farming having nothing to do with product quality but deliverable and growth quality.  Product quality in this case being a healthy nutrient dense plant and deliverable quality being a plant or produce with fast growth and favorable shipping qualities with less concern for taste and nutrient density.

There are numerous benefits derived using organic farming techniques, but the organic garden is only as good as the “organic materials” that are used to enrich the soil.  Today technology provides us with an expanded view of the nutritional requirements of plants and the issue is not in what we eat, but in how what we eat has been grown.

At Safe Harvest we believe that a healthy and holistic food system is necessary to meet the urgent challenges of our time. Behind us stands a half-century of industrial food production, underwritten by cheap fossil fuels, abundant land and water resources, and a drive to maximize the global harvest of cheap calories. Ahead lie rising energy and food costs, a changing climate, declining fresh water supplies, a growing population, and the paradox of widespread hunger, disease and obesity.

These realities call for a radically different, or holistic approach to food and agriculture. Safe Harvest believes that the food system must be reorganized on a foundation of health: for people, for our communities, and for the natural world. The quality of food, and not its quantity, ought to guide our agriculture. The way we grow, distribute, and prepare food should celebrate our various cultures and our shared humanity, providing not only sustenance, but health, nutrition, beauty and pleasure.

The movement to create a healthier food and agriculture policy in the US has been slowly and steadily gaining ground for well over a decade. Those all around the nation who began the work are encouraged by the progress and simultaneously concerned by the pace of change given the disproportionate impact of food and agriculture on personal and planetary health.

The public’s increasing interest and the media’s deepening coverage of climate change, energy, agriculture, food costs, food quality, disease and obesity may finally illuminate the interrelationship of these crises and provide a context for urgently needed changes, which is clearly the goal of Safe Harvest

Safe Harvest as a producer feels it has a duty to provide locally, safe and healthy food and the ability to create and or collaborate with local distribution systems that can provide healthy, nutritious food for our communities. The changes we have developed along with other organizations to improve the food system have begun, but the time has come to accelerate the transformation of our food and agriculture and make its benefits available to all, one community at a time.

Safe Harvest commitment to healthy holistically  grown food unites us with people and communities, across geographic boundaries, and social and economic lines.  We pledge, our creativity, and our energies to this urgent mission.