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

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

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

Will Brown
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.

Dan Leader
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.

Jeff Bialas
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.

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

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

Guy Jones
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.”

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