Dr. Christopher Shade
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No.
Oh, Driscoll's was trying to say they were.
Well, they say they're organic.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, strawberries.
Was it all the berries?
Yeah.
You know, one of the problems is, you know, right here is your non-organic and over here is your organic is what's called spray drift.
It's just and, you know, a lot of these are grown in California in the Great Valley and there's just spray drift all over the place.
Or you you decide, all right, these are going to be organic in the soils, just fill with all kinds of junk.
I was an organic farmer a long time ago before there was even USDA organic.
I was NOFA certified in like 92, 93.
I think that was a long time ago.
Yeah.
And that was Northeast Organic Farming Association.
And you had to...
things had to be out of any conventional use for at least three years.
It might have been five.
And then it wasn't just, oh, now I'm going to use the chicken shit instead of the chemical fertilizer.
You had to prove that you were really growing a soil ecosystem.