Why Organic?

The Natural way of farming is done in sync with nature with available resources and skills in the farm like cow dung, mulching, composting, crop rotation, leaving land fallow for a season, growing season specific crops and sow-plough multi grain plants rich in plant fibre to enrich the soil and many more

Why current age of farming is more challenging than before?

The exponential growth of population means more mouths to feed and more demand. This had put pressure on farmers and land to produce more. Hence more fertilizers, more chemicals and more insecticides and pesticides to give demanding consumer ever fresh and perfect veggies and fruits. In the process science has worked to make tomato look good and last long. The country tomatoes had more seeds, were juicy, thin skin and tasted good. But slowly and steadily we are losing our traditional varieties to more hybrid ones. These hybrid ones are quicker to harvest yet susceptible to pest attack invariably resulting in more usage of chemicals to kill the pest. Earlier farmers grew plants in tandem with cash crop to control pests than using pesticide which kills them. This way they neither poisoned the food nor the soil or water.

Why Natural products are not looking fresh glowing the same in size and colour?

Fresh is a very artificial word, nature never dictates size and shape for anything. In natural farming we get to taste and eat vegetables and fruits of various sizes and shapes even in the same plant usually it's not uniform. Fresh today means chill and dew drops over it.

What goodness we accrue when we buy and eat organic/natural vegetables and fruits?

First, one gets to keep their health safe from harmful chemicals entering their food chain, we also become aware of what we eat. Especially what we feed our children now decides how they grow up, and of course natural food always gives good health naturally. Second they encourage the natural farmer to continue natural cultivation without fear of no income. Third natural cultivation means no pollutants in the soil and less usage of water and natural resources. Fourth encouraging more farmers to join this movement and cultivate different crops suiting their local weather conditions. More produce will stabilise the customer price and will give a fair price to the farmers.

Why organic food is expensive?

Even now small farmers cultivate food for their families without chemicals and insecticides. While the production cost of organic cultivation is not that high, the operating cost to bring the produce from the farm to the customer's homes brings in lot of challenges, processing and high operational cost. Obviously this translates as cost for the customers in their products. At Organic Depot we are striving to work upon this to make sure we give the products at a decent price. While there is a long way to go, our baby steps in optimising the cost and increasing the farm and farmers base will surely lead there.

What we as consumers can do to help a natural farmer?

We must assure him or her steady evacuation of crops they grow so that they can get steady income. Most natural farmer are small time farmers or producer companies who are ready with many products to sell but struggling to meet the supply, in this case not much demand and supply is high.