have an understanding of organic farming. Tilth.
Producing food that is not contaminated by poisons almost always takes more time, money, knowledge, and care than simply throwing chemical fertilizer on the ground, and then repeatedly spraying the growing plants with poisonous insecticides and herbicides.
Most organic farmers put a lot of care, love, and concern into making the food they produce the safest, tastiest, and healthiest product possible.
For fertilizer, I used organic compost that I made from all kinds of good things for the earth, including earthworm castings, and rabbit and chicken manure from our own critters. I used natural substances such as wood ash, phosphate rock, sulfur soil, fish emulsion, and seaweed. I planted beans with corn because beans fix nitrogen and corn uses a lot of nitrogen. I rotated my crops to ensure the least amount of soil depletion, and grew alfalfa and then tilled it under on ground I wasn't using to fix nitrogen and add oranic material to the soil for spring planting. For pesticides I used organic substances such as bacillus thuringensis, and companion plants with flowers like marigolds and chrysanthemums, and hand picking. I got rid of weeds the old fashioned way ~ I mulched the fields, and pulled any weeds that popped up by hand.
It is so much more complicated, takes so much more skill and knowledge, and so much more labor intensive, to grow organic food than it does to farm with chemicals.
Most of the time when people buy organic food, they are not only buying food, but love as well. If organic food costs more, there is a common sense reason behind the higher price. It simply almost always costs more to produce it.
Now I have to get back to making my Hatch green chili sauce.
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