Agriculture committee  —assume it's not. Yes.

Agriculture committee  Meaning that they might use pesticides or fungicides or herbicides, but not necessarily GMO.

Agriculture committee  Yes. But you're an educated consumer.

Agriculture committee  If it doesn't say organic?

Agriculture committee  That would be incorrect. We deal with thousands of consumers every week who don't necessarily think it's GMO if it's not organic.

Agriculture committee  Conventional.

Agriculture committee  Farmers don't take their farm as a business. That's number one. Even talking to old-time farmers, they say, “Hey, i'm here to grow this and plant this, and if I sell it and make some money, that's great.” Business is at the bottom of the scale. So that's one thing that we do wi

Agriculture committee  Yes, it's our biggest hurdle. Even with the Organic Farming Institute, one of the courses I want to do is on farm business. We've dealt with Community Futures to get funding, and they say there are tons of business courses out there. Yes, but this is farm business. This is differ

Agriculture committee  I guess the question is whether there is science to prove that it is healthy, right now. You look at all the—

Agriculture committee  In the organic sector, there have been losses as well. Within what we're doing, we're very diversified. So if our peaches freeze out, for example, we plant more squash, or we plant more onions. We're a little different. We don't have crop losses so much. Overall, at the end of th

Agriculture committee  I do know of several farmers who are actually in Saskatchewan and Alberta and are farming organically.

Agriculture committee  I wouldn't know that one, no.

Agriculture committee  Yes, as a volunteer.

Agriculture committee  No, the Organic Farming Institute was actually started as an economic development kind of project. It was for the value, through the Keremeos-Cawston communities. They got together and said, “How do we bring economic development in?” They got some funding that way and got started

Agriculture committee  I can tell you that just through the farmers' markets themselves, the majority of all the new vendors are all new, young farmers who are all farming organically.