“There are wonderful sustainable initiatives, they are just not organic”
1st April 2021
Like in the US, the debate on whether hydroponic grown vegetables can be classified as organic is ongoing in Europe. That’s partly because of the surcharges organically certified produce yields, but there’s more. Growing hydroponically is truly sustainable, industry suppliers and growers say. “There are wonderful sustainable initiatives, they are just not organic,” is the answer of the organic industry.
I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was an ‘organic industry’.