Organic Strawberry Study - photo by D. Hennessey
The Public Library of Science Journal has just published an article by researchers from Washington State University that brings forward new information in favor of the value of organic food farming.
Side by side comparisons of organic and conventional strawberry farms and their fruit found the organic farms produced berries more nutritious and more full of flavor and also left the soil healthier and more genetically diverse.
You may have read that conventional strawberries are the third most pesticide contaminated conventional fruit in the market. This I wrote about in the article about the handy Environmental Working Group’s dirty dozen guide.
Here is the full abstract from The Public Library of Science Journal or you can read the announcement in the Washington State University Relations Magazine
Good News to share,
David
By the way, you may also want to read another news release I posted recently on the organic versus conventional farming debate. The study article is here.
