Please answer the following questions based on your visit to the Lynn Brakke Organic Farm and the article "What is Organic Food and Why Should I Care?"
1. How is organic farming different from conventional farming?
1. How is organic farming different from conventional farming?
Organic products are produced and processed without the use of prohibited synthetic and persistent pesticides, fertilizers, growth hormones, genetic engineering, artificial ingredients, and preservatives.
2. What is the nutrition value of organic food? Provide examples from the article.
Researchers in Texas found that organic grapefruits had higher levels of ascorbic acids, certain health-promoting flavonoids, and sugars, and were lower in nitrates.
3. How do organic practices improve the soil quality?
The organically farmed soils were found to have more total carbon and nitrogen, greater microbial biomass and activity, and higher concentration of micronutrients.
4. Why is organic production expensive?
2. What is the nutrition value of organic food? Provide examples from the article.
Researchers in Texas found that organic grapefruits had higher levels of ascorbic acids, certain health-promoting flavonoids, and sugars, and were lower in nitrates.
3. How do organic practices improve the soil quality?
The organically farmed soils were found to have more total carbon and nitrogen, greater microbial biomass and activity, and higher concentration of micronutrients.
4. Why is organic production expensive?
Organic food has higher requirement to the environment so that it require the farmers provide more higher technology.
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