Yeo Valley Organic sponsors the Soil Association Organic Food Festival it is the Europe’s largest celebration of all things organic and kicks off this year’s Soil Association Organic Fortnight, this is a nationwide campaign bringing together communities, retailers, restaurants, organic farms and schools.
The festival is now in its eight year and the event will take place in Bristol on September 6 and 7, 2009 and it will be host to over 300 organic companies, showcasing the very best organic food, drink, skincare, and home ware products.

People who will visit will be spoilt for choice with food markets, green plane pavilion, kitchen demonstration, food cruises around harbor, and an arts and entertainment fringe. The festival will open with the Matthew sailing towards the Amphitheatre and new to the festival are the Local Market in Anchor Square, Grow Your Own Organic Garden area, Organic Live!, areas including cookery demos and wine tasting and the food for life Partnership Cooking Bus in the Kid’s zone.

The Soil Association Organic Food Festival is greener than ever with the introduction of sustainably source biofuel to power the festival generators, and an emphasis on travelling to the festival by train, bus and ferry. To encourage people to come by train, the Soil Association, in partnership with First Travel, offering a 2 for 1 offer on festival tickets on presentation of proof of using First Travel transport.

Organic farming is a way of cultivation and growing of organic food in which there is no use of chemical substances. In organic farming, actually not just the consumers that benefit from the food but there are also benefits of organic farming for the farmers, these benefits are focused more on the farmers and their workers needs.

These benefits are great for the farmers and their workers who don’t wish to succumb to death or sickness. Benefits focus on the safety and health of the farmers and their workers. Organic farming does not promote the use of chemicals and other harmful substances, so there is no bad effect to the person’s health.

Another benefit of organic farming is focused on the consumers of the organic products; these benefits are for the health and safety of the consumers. Eating organic food can be greatly appreciated by the consumers when they experience less allergic reactions and lower the risk of contracting diseases caused by the chemicals. Organic farming also helps saving our environment and preventing harmful elements that can destroy the ozone layer. Farming organic food means that the soil is taken care of and the local wildlife and plant life are also taken care. No chemical in to the soil will yield a healthier soil that yield healthier crops.

Many people want to have a nice looking sexy body, they go to a gym to build up muscle and burn down fats.  Eating the basic food group can help you sustain and have a great sexy body.  Food that have high level of nutrients like organic food products, organic food don’t have any toxins added like pesticides or chemical flavor enhancers.  Chemicals such as that can be harmful or may have some side effect to our body that may cause obesity or something else.   Proper healthy eating habit is a must and with some exercise helps you to gain that particular weight that you want.
 One thing is that organic food product is not harmful to our environment and considering that we have problem in global warming.  Consider the health of your family, organic food is just a preventative measure, rather than spending some money on medicines or trips to the doctor.
Another to be considered is the way you or we live and how often lunch and dinner is in fast food or restaurant meals.  Buying organic food maybe more cooked meal at home, less takeaways.  These changes may be challenging but it increase well being and long term benefits.

Ireland will be hit for about 1.5 billion euros by the EU under the terms and conditions of the Kyoto protocol. Why? Because our Co2 emissions increased so rapidly under the celtic tiger. That figure may even rise to something more like 4.5 billion, depending on how we perform between now and 2012.

Meanwhile, since the celtic tiger began all those years ago, organic farming has stagnated in Ireland. The amount spent on organic food has kept going up, but actual hectares farmed organically in Ireland has stalled, due mainly to imports. While initially, there may seem to be little connection between organic farming and the Kyoto protocol, read on.

While conventional farming contributes to green house gas emissions, organic farming actually takes the bad stuff (carbon dioxide) from the air and turns it into something beneficial. In fact, in the organic system, as in the organic philosophy, carbon is seen as useful. Growth of plants on an organic holding depends on the ability of the holding to maintain carbon. While conventional farming can deplete soil organic matter, organic farming actually builds it through the use of composted animal manures and cover crops.

It turns out that, over the 23 years of a study by the Rhodale Institute ,theres’ been a 15-28% increase in soil carbon in organic systems, with virtually no increase in non-organic systems.

This study examined conventional, organic manure and organic plant/legume (i.e.manure-free) systems. The research was ‘peer-reviewed’ in the scientific journal, Nature; in other words, it was posited, challenged and defended by lecturers and professors from reputable academic institutions in what is the best academic journal in the area.

According to this massive piece of research, carried out from 1981 up until 2003, organic systems capture and make safe massive amounts of carbon. You can add to this the fact that organic systems actually use up less energy.

The word they use in the literature is ’sequestered’. In other words, carbon is sequestered in organic farm soil. ‘Sequestered’ seems, at first, an overly complex and convoluted word which just means something along the lines of removed from the air, or left behind in the soil, or taken out of action. It actually means ‘to surrender for safekeeping’ and it comes from the word which describes, essentially, a trustee, a sequester. In other words, an organic farm is a kind of safe keeper for carbon.

The carbon savings are massive. (Despite winning a war of Independence in the 1770s, the US still uses imperial measurements.) Organic farms sequester as much as 3,670 pounds of carbon per acre-foot each year.

Think of it in terms of cars. In the US, if they had 10,000 more ‘medium sized’ organic farms, that would equals 14.62 billion less miles driven.

And that’s not even counting the reductions in CO2 emissions represented by the organic systems’ lower energy requirements.

A comparative analysis of the farm system trials’ use of energy ( by Dr. David Pimentel of Cornell University) found that organic farming systems use just 63% of the energy required by conventional farming systems, in the main because of the massive amounts of energy required to synthesize nitrogen fertilizer.

Along with this, organic farming is a better way of holding carbon in a safe ‘format’ than even forests are. Farmers know more than most than ‘experts differ and farming suffers’. Initially, in greenhouse gas research, vast areas of forests were considered the best available option for Co2s. Now, thanks in part to these decades of research by the Rhodale Institute, organic farms are.

In saying this, we are leaving aside all of the other benefits of organic farming. We are simply pointing out yet another reason that state policy in this country should favour organic farming. After all, 1.5 billion euros is 1.5 billion euros.