Creating a habit of Organic

The documentary "Symphony of the Soil" is a documentary that talks about soil and the importance of soil all over the world. They focused a lot on the connection between soil, water, and air. Those three components help each other out greatly and all over the world, the equation between these components are different meaning that the soil is different in different places around the world giving it the ability to grow certain plants and crops.

The film also focuses on the idea of farming this land and different problems that come from farming conventionally. Putting chemicals into the land to make the crops grow better helps in short term production to give the farmer a larger amount of money in their pocket. However, the chemicals add up creating long term buildup and problems that the soil will pay for in the future. The United States relies on conventional farming because this is the only solution that they see providing enough food to feed everyone. Americans are people who live through habit. We dont like to change our ways of doing things if it means more risks. One of the changes is organic farming. I am a huge advocate of organic farming because my family is very involved in it. My grandparents have multiple acreas of organic garden.

Organic farming has many advantages to the soil and atmosphere around it. Not having to till the land as much keeps erosion from happening, creating composte to put in the soil in replacement to the chemical furtilizaters, and putting healthier chemical free food into the people who consume it. Disadvantages to organic farming are the time and energy it takes to maintain it; It takes a little more work to produce, a little more time to produce, but the finishing product is worth it. The problem consumers have is that it is more expensive. Americans are very quick to pick out whatever is cheapest at the supermarket so organic foods dont receive the demand they should be. The habit hasnt been created yet.

In conclusion, I believe that organic farming could become a bigger deal in the world if the education is spread, the demand raises up enough to have more and more producers. The more producers, the cheaper it can become. Organic farming is a slow moving improvement that will improve the land, water, and atmosphere surrounding it. If the knowledge is spread on how to become an organic farmer, I believe it can create very positive improvements on the environment all over the world. The more people that do it, the more the habit will be created.