I really love this lettuce, crisp & delicious. However, I am tired of seeing it in thick plastic containers, so starting to look for other good lettuce in health food stores. You should be using more eco friendly packaging please. Thank you
If they were certified as Organic, it would probably be well advertised. If inputs are listed as such it would be just the start of practices atypical to this hydroponic farm. This is from their website "Our lettuce is not certified organic, though we adhere to growing practices that ensure our lettuce is on par with (or even beyond) the quality of organic greens." To me this means they choose to follow a different business model with less overhead, non-organic certified / listed inputs. WHEN they cannot filter the water clean enough to meet safety criteria, they flush the system. They do not have to use weak organic inputs, so recovery time is shorter when this occurs thus the risk and expense of this vs. following organic guidelines, using only organic practices and supporting inputs, including sanitation and inoculation chemicals, providing a better-quality product and being better compensated for the increase of appeal. "Technologically advanced" is a cool thing to attract people to the infrastructure and but having climate control and using water instead of soil doesn't determine or dictate "organic" in the eyes of most, but is controversial amongst some hippies.
I really love this lettuce, crisp & delicious. However, I am tired of seeing it in thick plastic containers, so starting to look for other good lettuce in health food stores. You should be using more eco friendly packaging please. Thank you
Built on the old Fort Devens footprint? How cool. Love your lettuce too.
Amazing facility ❤❤❤
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With your "technologically advanced greenhouse" and NO Pesticides, Herbicides, or Fungicides, does this make your lettuce "Organic"?
If they were certified as Organic, it would probably be well advertised. If inputs are listed as such it would be just the start of practices atypical to this hydroponic farm. This is from their website "Our lettuce is not certified organic, though we adhere to growing practices that ensure our lettuce is on par with (or even beyond) the quality of organic greens."
To me this means they choose to follow a different business model with less overhead, non-organic certified / listed inputs. WHEN they cannot filter the water clean enough to meet safety criteria, they flush the system. They do not have to use weak organic inputs, so recovery time is shorter when this occurs thus the risk and expense of this vs. following organic guidelines, using only organic practices and supporting inputs, including sanitation and inoculation chemicals, providing a better-quality product and being better compensated for the increase of appeal. "Technologically advanced" is a cool thing to attract people to the infrastructure and but having climate control and using water instead of soil doesn't determine or dictate "organic" in the eyes of most, but is controversial amongst some hippies.