Organic = Higher Price

[Nyboy]

There is a ad on CL for organic lilacs and dogwood. If something is not for food use, why would organic matter? Am I missing something?

 

[Ridgerunner]

For some people it will. I liked the definition of organic as a lifestyle @seedcorn used. That's different to me than "certified organic", by the way, but that's probably a different topic. To many people I'm sure there is no real difference.

To some people, organic is not just about the food we eat but what we do to the environment. To them, if we are organic in everything we do then we are doing our part in saving the planet.

 

[Nyboy]

Thanks organic= healthy environment Got it.

 

[bobm]

Thanks organic= healthy environment Got it.

One of our neighbors went to a popular small lake with a nice beech (10 +/- miles from here) 2 weeks ago. There was a family group of hippy types there two days before. Their toddler with cloth diapers on added a load into the cloth diaper. The mother takes said diaper off and washes it out in the lake. A few days later a couple dozen swimmers ( including their 2 boys ages 7 and 4 ) come down with vomiting and diarrhea. Now , I don't know if the load was of organic origin or not, but in this case, I don't believe that it was healthy for the environment ! Last year in the spring, an organic dairy farmer in the area, spread cow manure onto his pasture. A heavy rain came and the rain water drained onto a small creek that fed into that lake. Within a couple days there was an algie bloom and the lake was closed to one and all. Hmmm ! If one searches on google for toxicity comparison of "organic " herbicides and pesticides vs. commercial ones. One will discover that some of the "organic" ones are just as toxic or more so than the commercially available products.

 

[seedcorn]

NYboy, u r missing the marketing part. nothing else.

hype, scare tactics vs. substance.

 

[baymule]

Organic lilacs and dogwood? I am all about not using chemicals because I am sensitive to them, but I think that is just a ploy to prey on stupid people. JMO

 

[Nyboy]

seedcorn that was my first thought marketing, put organic in front of something price goes up!!

 

[Nyboy]

http://newyork.craigslist.org/wch/grd/4543447349.html

 

[journey11]

I wonder if the seller just means that he has not used any non-organic sprays on them?

Think, as in roses for example...have to spray frequently to keep blackspot and JBs at bay, v/s using organic sprays and techniques to control them. My FIL always handpicked the JBs off of his roses because he didn't want people burying their noses in a bloom full of pesticides.

 

[Nyboy]

They have ads for a lot of different trees, think its a commercial grower not someone backyard hobbey.