Yes, I think the organic approach to agriculture that we've taken is.... Organic sometimes gets a bad name, but I always say there are two types of organic farmers: organic by neglect and organic by management. We spend a lot of time on the management side of our operation. Our operation really, truly can be a family farm operation. We don't have herbicides and pesticides and harmful products that can harm young children on a farm property, and I think it allows us a very good quality of living.
We have heard a lot about sustainability, but I think we need to look at sustainability in terms of a symbiotic process and how it can work together for the whole farm. A farm isn't very sustainable if we are importing tons and tons of nutrients to feed that farm operation. I think we have proven in this area that.... Our farm totals about 1,000 acres, and I have very small input bills. I buy a little bit of forage seed for plough-down, but we “seed save”.
We produce all our own products on farm. I think there is a lot to be said for that—and that we're running at a profit, also.