Imagining your goal is to avoid ingesting pesticides, pick organic crops from the most common – pears, peaches, grapes, nectarines, apples, strawberries, bell peppers, cherries, celery, lettuce, carrots, and kale. A regular diet of the non-organic versions of these could lead you to consume up to 10 different pesticides a day.

Every plant regardless of its properties starts as a seed.  Each seed starts off in a good amount of soil or fertilizer.  While many people still don’t see the differences between organic and non-organic there could be high health risks involved. In several schools around California school children have been exposed to pesticides with out even ingesting the product.  Imagine acres of farm land being sprayed with pesticide on a mildly windy day, as the pesticide hits the crops, not all of it is kept on the fields.  Chemicals have blown through local schools causing two children to collapse in spasms at one local school in Strathmore California.

If you decide organic fertilizer isn’t for you, you might be at risk for not only health problems, but the lack of full flavor from your fruits and vegetables.  40 percent of the most common pesticides used in the U.S. are banned in several other countries.  As these fertilizers enter the soil the nutrients may be absorbed in some of the plants, but the left over toxins are what stay in the dirt.  Instead of ruining your ground soil, why not find some insects that eat the harmful bugs on your plants, saving your soil, and the flavorful fruits and vegetables.  Non organic methods may be easier, but what are you willing to give up, health, flavor, soil?

One of organic fertilizers strengths is its abundance. Generally, this kind of fertilizer has basic natural elements that are found in the environment. The use of organic materials as fertilizers also promotes recycling by finding a new use for supposed wastes (Chicken Poop). This makes biodegradable scrap a possible nutrition supplement for plants and garden soil.  They are the exact opposite of chemical fertilizers, which have to be bought from stores.  In addition, organic matter, which is mostly the main component of most organic fertilizers, aid in sustaining air and water in the soil for plants' additional source of nutrients.