Organic for real

Good week!
In the past, all agriculture was natural and organic. Those days are long gone. With the advent of agribusiness, everything is done to maximize profits, including many things that cause your food to be far from organic or natural. Also, far from healthy. Accordingly, if you wish to eat healthy natural and organic food, you must have a way to examine what you eat. Luckily, there are oversight organizations that can be relied upon to carry out this function for you.
Conventionally grown produce almost always has residue of pesticides, weed and fungus repellents and other materials designed to defeat natural processes. These materials are not good for the plants and they are not good for you. However, they do increase yield, keep away bugs, extend shelf life, etc. Things that matter to agribusiness.

How can you know if your veggies are actually grown in an organic way and are free of chemicals?
Look for a certification. In Israel there are three organizations that are authorized by The Ministry of Agriculture to certify produce as organically grown. These organizations work with integrity and are diligent in overseeing and examining the food production that they certify.
When I started selling my crops, I thought that the organic certificate was just another useless requirement, causing great expense and inconvenience. I don't think that anymore. In order to be certified "organic" in Israel, the grower must pass very strict examinations. As a grower I am familiar with these tests and I strictly adhere to, and exceed, their requirements. Moreover, I work only with other certified growers.

you need to see this:

Once, one of my clients, a "veteran" eater from the garden, requested a certain fruit and claimed that a different "Organic" distributor said that he had it, and that it was organically grown. I called to find out.
I found the grower and in a phone conversation he told me that he actually grows other crops using conventional agricultural methods, but not this fruit, which is organically grown. He has several trees of this fruit, and since he does not tend to them in any way, he considers them to be organic. I asked if he fertilizes them - no. I asked if he sprayed them with anything - no. When I asked how he protects them from weeds, he told that he sprays his entire plantation area including these trees. As far as this farmer thinks, the fruit I was interested in did not receive conventional treatment and was not under a specific pesticide regime and was therefore considered organic. This is what he thought, and what he told his customers. If we would test his fruit we would find plenty of dangerous chemical residue. But this would not be known, because he was not under supervision. Since there is no supervision, no samples were taken, and no tests were conducted.
For him the crop is organic. An organic oversight organization would not agree. So, in order to always know if your food is truly organically grown, Look for these certifications.
Here are the symbols to look for these:
Governmental:

And one out of the the three organizations that are authorized by The Ministry of Agriculture to certify produce as organically grown:

Have a good week, a clean week, a healthy week and a wet week!!
Yours,
Maggie and the garden staff

And a list of expected produce in our weekly baskets (draft only)
Cabbage
Lettuce
Coriander
Carrots
Sweet potato
Dutch cucumber
Tomatoes
Onion
Ramiro peppers
And potatoes

Larger ones also:
Radishes
Mangold
Parsley
And broccoli

Fruit baskets:
Oranges
Sweeties
And avocado