{"id":48244,"date":"2021-06-07T11:25:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T09:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/?p=48244"},"modified":"2021-06-07T11:28:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T09:28:40","slug":"just-add-water-battle-raging-organic-hydroponics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/en\/2021\/06\/07\/just-add-water-battle-raging-organic-hydroponics\/","title":{"rendered":"Just add water: The battle raging over \u2018organic hydroponics\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One way of looking at <strong>organic and hydroponics<\/strong> is to see them each as valuable assets in the sustainable farming toolbox. They are both resource efficient \u2018closed-loop&#8217; growing systems, that deliver important environmental and societal benefits.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48227\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48227\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-48227 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hidroponico.jpg\" alt=\"Just add water: The battle raging over \u2018organic hydroponics\u2019 \" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hidroponico.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hidroponico-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hidroponico-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hidroponico-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">123rf Limited\u00a9macmackyky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>The hydroponics strategy<\/h2>\n<p>But organic farming and hydroponics (where food crops are grown without soil, usually in nutrient infused water) represent very different approaches. Organic is rooted in practices that promote biologically active, healthy soils and is summed up by the motto of organic growing \u2018feed the soil, not the plant\u2019. Hydroponic, and other soil-less growing systems, are based on the opposite strategy.<\/p>\n<h3>Collision course<\/h3>\n<p>In the United States previous harmony between organic and hydroponic growers has been severely tested in recent years by the expansion of the concept of \u2018organic hydroponics\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>For 25 years the United States Agriculture Department (USDA) has certified hydroponic and other soil-less systems as organic under the USDA Organic scheme. But recent years have seen growing resistance to this trend from the US organic community, and the launch of a noisy campaign to \u2018keep the soil in organic\u2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hydroponic systems, sometimes known as vertical farms, are capable of producing high crop yields from a very small physical footprint<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For 25 years the United States Agriculture Department (USDA) has certified hydroponic and other soil-less systems as organic under the USDA Organic scheme. But recent years have seen growing resistance to this trend from the US organic community, and the launch of a noisy campaign to \u2018keep the soil in organic\u2019.<\/p>\n<h3>Vertical farms<\/h3>\n<p>Shortly after the vote, Dave Chapman, an organic grower from Vemont, warned of \u201ca tidal wave of hydroponics coming into organic certification\u201d. He said the NOSB\u2019s decision to back soil-less growing was \u201cedging us towards creating a new organic label\u201d. Not long after Chapman made those remarks, the Real Organic Project launched the Real Organic Standard to allow farmers like him to visibly differentiate from the USDA Organic scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Hydroponic systems, sometimes known as vertical farms, are capable of producing high crop yields from a very small physical footprint, often utilising low-cost real estate. It means that producers of organic hydroponics are able to significantly undercut other organic growers.<\/p>\n<h3>Unfair competition<\/h3>\n<p>Many organic farmers say this amounts to unfair competition, since hydroponically grown organic-certified crops do not have to be labelled as such. So, as the US organic commentator, Max Goldberg, recently noted, \u201cnot only does hydroponics have nothing to do with soil fertility, it also creates an unlevel playing field among organic producers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The higher margins achievable by hydroponics have attracted the interest of wealthy investors. This is pushing hydroponics towards ever larger scale production, and further away from the \u201cutopia of green cities\u201d once envisaged, in which networks of soil-less growers feed urbanites healthy, sustainable greens.<\/p>\n<p>Between them, leading hydroponics operators like AeroFarms and Plenty have secured hundreds of millions of dollars in investment, as they have rolled out vertical farm facilities of up to 12,000 m2 in size.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48233\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48233\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hidroponico-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hidroponico-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hidroponico-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hidroponico-2-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hidroponico-2-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">123rf Limited\u00a9Luiz Ribeiro Ribeiro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>The European picture<\/h3>\n<p>In Europe, organic hydroponics is not the very live issue it is in the US. Under EU organic rules the use of hydroponics and aquaponics are prohibited and the new EU Organic Regulation firmly cements the \u201cprinciple of land-related crop production and the nourishing of plants primarily through the soil ecosystem\u201d. The updated Regulation will also phase out use of \u2018demarcated beds\u2019, a type of containerised growing system commonly used in Nordic countries, which previously could be certified organic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nordic Harvest\u2019s 7,000 m2 unit in Denmark is Europe\u2019s largest to date. A 17-storey 5,000 m2 facility in the UK is not far behind<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the meantime the hydroponics sector is expanding rapidly across the continent. Operators are building vertical farms that rival the size of the biggest US facilities. Nordic Harvest\u2019s 7,000 m2 unit in Denmark is Europe\u2019s largest to date. A 17-storey 5,000 m2 facility in the UK is not far behind.<\/p>\n<p>But hydroponics is not always about industrial scale growing. Grow Bristol, based in the west of England city, is a good example of a community-led hydroponic scheme designed to supply fresh food year-round to local residents and restaurants \u201cwithout the heavy water use and environmental degradation of industrial farming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>Confrontation between people with the same goals<\/h3>\n<p><em>The New York Times <\/em>writer Dan Nosowitz says the trend towards a highly commercialised hydroponics market has created an \u201cunfortunate debate that pits people against each other who have many of the same goals in mind\u201d. He says \u201corganic activists and small hydroponic farmers both want to grow sustainably, at their core\u201d, but have been divided by commercial forces and policy decisions that rarely are about small farmers.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the benefits claimed for hydroponics \u2013 \u2018clean\u2019 pesticide-free food, 95% less water use than field farming and high yields among them \u2013 many in the organic sector believe it offers only limited solutions.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cOne trick pony\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>The distinguished UK organic commentator, Lawrence Woodward, calls hydroponics a \u201cone trick pony\u201d due the limited range of food crops it is suited to (mainly micro greens and leafy salad vegetables).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both are resource-efficient \u2018closed loop\u2019 cropping systems, which offer significant environmental and social benefits<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Patrick Holden, founder of the Sustainable Food Trust, brings the discussion full circle back to soil. He likens feeding plants through chemical nutrients in solution to feeding a hospital patient with food intravenously. It has an important role in treating serious illness, he says, but in relation to food production it \u201cexcludes the vital role of the soil as \u2018the stomach\u2019 of the plant, breaking down organic matter and completing nutrient cycles, on which many planetary ecosystems ultimately depend\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/naturalnewsdesk.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Jim Manson<\/a>, Journalist<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/en\/subscription\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe<\/a>\u00a0at our Newsletter and be up to date with the latest news from the Organic Sector<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Bio Eco Actual<\/strong>, Independent European Organic Press<br \/>\n<\/em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bioecoactual.com\/en\/newspaper-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Bio Eco Actual<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way of looking at organic and hydroponics is to see them each as valuable assets in the sustainable farming toolbox. 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