What is Organic Farming?
Organic farming promotes the sustainable health and productivity of the ecosystem – soil, plants, animals and people. Organic foods are farmed in an environmentally sustainable and socially responsible way, focusing on soil regeneration, water conservation and animal welfare. Taste of Nature sources ingredients that are farmed and produced in this manner.
What is Organic Food?
Organic food is produced through a system that is based on ecological balance and humane care for the plants, animals and people that make up the farm environment. Soil health is central to organic farming. Healthy soil provides the basis for healthy crops and a balanced, resilient ecosystem. Organic farmers build the soil using composted organic matter and crop rotations. The organic approach to weed, insect, and plant disease control is knowledge–intensive rather than technology–intensive. By exploring the alternatives to expensive agro–toxin inputs such as synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, organic farmers bypass the need for these technologies. Organic food production methods conform to national organic standards as regulated through certification agencies. This means that all certified organic food is produced according to specific rules.
Some products on the market promote organics, but are not certified. We feel certification is a must. Otherwise, it's an empty claim. Taste of Nature goes to great lengths to ensure that all ingredients used in our bars are certified organic and that our products as a whole are also certified. Each country has different certifying bodies. It is a huge task to keep track of it all and to go through the certification process to meet every certifier's scrutiny (USDA/NOP, NOP/JAS, EU). We are dedicated to this process and proud of the work we do. Certified organic means we are doing our share to keep people, animals, plants, water, soil and our planet as a whole, nice and healthy.
So then. Organic foods are socially and environmentally responsible, cleaner, healthier, more nutritious and just plain taste better. Doesn't it make sense to eat organic?
Want more? Download the top 10 reasons to eat organic foods, granted by kind permission of the Soil Association.
Taste of nature bars are certified by OCPP/PRO–Cert Canada Inc. For more information on organic certification, please visit www.ocpro.ca
Act locally. You've heard this before, right? Well here's a little tidbit you might find interesting. At Taste of nature, we offer our staff the opportunity to buy any of our certified ingredients at wholesale cost. This is our way to encourage our very own manufacturing family, to eat healthy stuff.