Organic growers have a strong commitment to the soil. If they don't abuse the land, it will provide for them for many years to come.

Organic growing prevents the loss of topsoil, water pollution, the death of garden-friendly and beneficial insects, birds, critters, and soil organisms.

It allows for a higher vitamin and mineral content in the soil. and therefore in the food you eat.

This also assures the grower that no chemical pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and synthetic fertilizers are being unknowingly put into the foods that they and their families rely upon.

The more scientists learn the effects of pesticides on human health, the more grim the results are.

These chemicals have been shown to have an impact on the brain and central nervous system, linking them to anxiety disorders, memory problems, and personality changes. There is also a known connection between pesticides and Parkinson's Disease in men, breast cancer in women.

A common mistake that most people make is believing they can wash these pesticides off, but the reality is that if chemicals ore used  from the time the seed is planted, then the chemicals are present through the life of the plant from seedling to fruit to seed. This would be like spraying an apple with Raid and then washing it off. Would you eat that?

When the body is polluted with man-made chemicals, such as pesticides and herbicides, the body produces fat cells to dilute and store the excess toxins. Gardening chemicals also clog the liver, an organ that carries out a major role in ejecting fat from the body.

Eating organic foods eliminates these causes of obesity.

In addition, more calories are burned by working in the garden an the added activity stimulates your body's excretory system, helping to push those weight-gain causing toxins out.

Studies have shown that organic food contains higher levels of Vitamin C as well as 20 other vital nutrients that your body needs Antioxidants were found to be 50% higher than the non-organic counterpart, and potassium and magnesium were over 100% higher.