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Organic growing techniques use "vastly" less water? How so? I'm guessing that there's a correlation between farmers who choose to grow organic and those who tr
by lowboy 13y ago
Organic growing techniques use "vastly" less water? How so?
I'm guessing that there's a correlation between farmers who choose to grow organic and those who try to conserve water, but I can't see how one is "vastly" different.
- stinkytaco 13y agoThere's pretty solid evidence that biointesive techniques use less water because they make better use of the same space. If I grow two tomato plants in the space I used to grow one, I waste less water. But yes, you're right, I don't know if "vastly" is the word I would use.
- lowboy 13y agoDoes biointensive === organic? Organic is a loaded term nowadays, so maybe it's just semantics.
- stinkytaco 13y agoNo. Really, singling out "biointensive" was unfair as any intensive agriculture would have the same benefit. >Organic is a loaded term nowadays, so maybe it's just semantics. So loaded as to be basically meaningless.
- Pxtl 13y ago... yeah, I might've overstated that, which is particularly hypocritical given the thrust of my post. Anyhow, I can't find the original article, but the idea is that organic farming techniques produce soil that's far better at retaining water and preventing wasteful evaporation. Also, there's the secondary matter of fertilizer runoff contaminating local ground-water.