USDA Certified Organic is more than a label. Our guest, Carolyn Olson, shares the attention to detail and expense necessary to produce an organic crop. She also shares how raising pigs conventionally is part of their plan.
Carolyn Olson is a wife, mom, grandma, and farmer. She is a district director on the Minnesota Farm Bureau board of directors and was the first chair of the American Farm Bureau Organic and Direct Marketing Issue Advisory Committee. She farms with her husband, Jonathan, in southwest Minnesota, and shared her farm story in Food Truths from Farm to Table about how conventional and organic agriculture can work together.
Key points:
It takes 36 months to become a certified organic farm:
Agriculture has divided themselves into groups, such organic vs. conventional or no-till vs. till. There isn’t one right answer in agriculture - or in food. Everyone chooses what is best for them. For example, raising pigs conventionally provides ample organic fertilizer.
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