Depends where you are. What organic allows varies a fair bit around the world. UK's Soil Association is still stricter than the EU. I think US has one of the lo

Depends where you are. What organic allows varies a fair bit around the world. UK's Soil Association is still stricter than the EU. I think US has one of the loosest. Not certain of how they all differ though. I know Soil Assoc try to promote interculture (two crops at once), field margins and what not, but have know way to know how that translates to reality or just pretty words on a website entirely ignored by the farmers, though I can probably guess. Pesticide use does come with limits on what and how often so they can legally keep saying low pesticides. I think that's about as low impact as it gets unless you have a decent sized garden as just about nowhere does it the old way any more. Beyond that I just don't know, which is frustrating for all shopping - we're given no idea of the impact of choices so have to basically guess. It needs to be on labels, but producers would fight that tooth and nail.