We take grade school kids on guided interactive walks, to sense through sight, smell, touch and feeling what is going on in the nature preserve and farm. It is amazing how many kids don't know where milk comes from or how tomatoes grow. We even get a lot of kids who have never seen a forest like ours. We talk with the kids about the linkages between farms and the natural ecosystem, how we can coexist and work together. We promote agricultural literacy, which is having a sense of where our food comes from and how it is produced.
Food grown without pesticides is often fresh, local and seasonal.
It is high in nutritive quality and it is produced without creating costs to the environment, soil or land. It is produced without exploiting human resources or exposing people to potentially harmful chemicals. You can take an organic tomato and compare it to a tomato in the grocery store that is shipped from California. Without exception people will tell you the organic local fresh tomato tastes better. We have become so disconnected from our food system.