Photographer Francesco Mastalia is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this social documentary photography. These images are from his book ‘Organic‘. To see Francesco’s body of work click on any image.

Kingston, New York
Organic has come to mean my relationship with food. Two words that come to mind are health and trust.

Hyde Park, New York
When I think of the word organic I think about nature, doing the right thing with the planet.

Chester, New York
Organic is when you plant something in the ground and don’t mess with it.

Warwick, New York
We have not gone down the organic certification route. As far as our cows are concerned, they’re just naturally in the fields.

Boiceville, New York
Organic to me is a process, it is unfiltered and you are not dealing with the questions of pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides.

Goshen, New York
Organic is the way people did things 100 years ago. That’s the way they did it then and that’s the way we should do it now.

Milton, New York
The problem is, when I say organic, it means a lot of things I don’t want it to mean anymore.

Philmont, New York
You can be better then the organic certification; I am sorry to say. But that’s just how it is.

Blooming Grove, New York
There’s no farmer in the world that wakes up in the morning and says, “Oh boy, I get to spray today.”

Ancram, New York
Now organic includes huge industrial farming and it’s unethical to what we want it to be.