No matter what your culinary preferences, from traditional mega cookouts at the park to health conscious quick meals, grilling has something delicious to offer for everyone. Recipe for any barbecue party:

Barbecue Bell Pepper Spread/Dip

3 cups finely diced red and yellow bell peppers (one large pepper of each color)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese
2 packages  Simply Organic Grilling Seasons Mesquite BBQ Mix
Crackers or chips of your choice

Procedure:
Place a sheet of foil on grill.
Brush with oil and add peppers.
Grill for 5 to 10 minutes until peppers start to turn golden brown.
While peppers are grilling, place cream cheese in a large bowl and when peppers are ready, pour grilled pepper over cream cheese and add the Simply Organic Grilling Seasons Mesquite BBQ Mix .
Stir until completely blended.
Serve warm or chilled with crackers or chips

Southwest salad

2 ripe medium dice tomatoes
1 can drained corn
1 can drained and rinsed black beans
1 package simply organic fish taco mix
½ cup olive oil
1 lime juice

Procedure:
Dice two medium tomatoes, and place in a large bowl.
Add corn and black beans.
In a small bowl, whisk simply organic fish taco mix packet content
½ cup olive oil together and pour over vegetables and squeeze on lime juice.

Spicy lamb on the grill

1 onion
1 tbsp olive oil
4 Sheepdrove Organic lamb leg, shoulder or chump steaks
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp black pepper
Fresh chopped coriander or parsley
Lemon wedges

Procedure:
Grate the onion by hand or using a food processor
Mix in oil and cumin and pepper
Add meat and mix well to coat evenly
Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Scrape onion mixture from chops.
Grill over medium hot coals or under a preheated grill for 5 minutes per side for medium rare.
Sprinkling with salt as you turn the meat
Sprinkle with parsley and serve with couscous, salad leaves and lemon wedges for squeezing over.

In Chiang Mai longan growers in northern Thailand have successfully sold 10 tons of peeled and dehydrated organic longan, the first pesticide free dried longan that shipped from the country.  Managing director of Prompungwahn Co., Prokchon Pramgungwahn said that “the volume is also much lower than demand warrants, and strong market growth for healthy products has prompted us to spurn chemically grown longan”.  Prompungwahn Co. is a lead company in the cluster that groups 30 longan growers in Chiang Mai and Lamphun.

The cluster was formed last year with the support of German Technical Co-operation (GTZ) and the Institute of Product Quality and Standardization of Maejo University, which aims to open niche markets and promote sustainable growth for longan growers.  The agency will take 18 months to certify all production process and give its approval.  They joined the international organic standard system in 2007 and organic longan from the 2008 cultivation season is awaiting certification from the Organic Agriculture Certification Thailand.

About 130 tons of organic longan were produce this year, and with 110 tons dehydrated to produce 10 ton of dried and peeled longan, or Lamyai Sri Thong.

Eating organic reduces pesticide exposure.  Various pesticides have been linked with adverse effects on fertility and fetal development and with increased cancer risk.  More than 90 percent of conventionally grown produce contains pesticide residue, compared with 20 percent of organically produced fruits and vegetables, and these have much lower concentrations, according to Benbrook. 

Eating organic also decrease your intake of food additives such as monosodium glutamate or MSG, food coloring agents and artificial sweeteners.  Additives and dyes have been linked to food allergies, hyperactivity, neurological disease and cancer.  In organic product there are no growth hormones or antibiotics in meat or dairy.  These growth hormones, which are injected in cows, have been linked to early puberty development and a higher risk of cancer.

Organic food does not contain genetically modified organisms.  Jury is still out on the health effects of eating transgenetic food, such as wheat that’s had a fish gene spliced into it.   Organic food tastes better.  Alyson Mitchell, PhD, who led the antioxidant studies at UCD, says that “organic produce tends to taste better, most likely because of higher antioxidant levels, which help it, store long too.”  Benbrook also believes it can encourage people to reach the daily recommendation of five to 10 serving more easily.   

In food industry survey of U.S. consumers taken in 2004, there are 66% say they use organic products at least occasionally.  27% ate more organic food than they did the previous year and 70% worry about the health risks of pesticides, hormones, antibiotics and other chemicals in food.  Also 32% say organic food tastes better and 54% think that organic food is better for their health and 58% also think organic food is better for the environment.

It is all natural fertilizer and environmental friendly for organic growers.  Converted Organic Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) has receive certification from the Washington State Department of Agriculture’s (WSDA) Organic Food Program for its Pacific Choice(TM) Hydrolyzed Fish fertilizer use for organic agriculture.  Converted Organics developed the product in partnership with Pacific Choice Seafood it is a Pacific Seafood Group company.

Pacific Choice(TM) Hydrolyzed Fish is an all natural fertilizer whose nutrients is from the by-product of oceangoing fish and stabilized with phosphoric acid.  Converted Organic is very pleased that they receive the WSDA’s organic certification for their Pacific Choice(TM) Hydrolyzed Fish.  The product has been specially formulated to provide organic growers with a high quality, natural liquid fish fertilizer, suitable on variety of crops.

The Converted Organics (NASDAQ:COIN) is based in Boston, MA, is dedicated to producing valuable all natural organic soil amendment or fertilizer products through food waste recycling.  The company plans to sell and distribute its fertilizer products in agribusiness markets, turf management, and in the retail.  The Converted Organics uses state-of-the-art technologies to create a product that helps grow healthier food and improve the environment.  The company’s product have been tested in numerous trials for more than a dozen crops, the result is on average, the net value of the farmer’s crop increased to 11% to 16% depending on the particular crop.  Increased use of nitrogen in commercial agriculture turf grass applications has lower the soil’s ability to absorb nitrogen and other nutrient, by using the products produced by Converted Organics helps restore the soil.  It reduces the amount of nitrogen required in a virtuous cycle that benefits from long term use.  Converted Organics’ fertilizer products will be produced in both a dry pellet and liquid concentrate.

Economic pessimism dents consumers’ previously buoyant demand for organic produce and the dairy farmers are turning their backs on Britain’s organic milk market. There are figures show that there has been a reversal in the numbers of dairy farmers converting to organic farming from the conventional methods. It rises up to 80 percent in the price of organic feed for dairy herds, and it means hundreds of organic milk producers are running loss. Farms were undergoing conversion to organic and were capable of producing million liters of milk have abandoned the process and return to non-organic farming.
Non organic dairy farmers joining the organic movement are no longer an attractive option. The situation has prompted warnings of shortage and a mass exit by existing organic producers unless retailers agree to increase the farm gate price paid for milk, to ensure farmers can cover rapidly escalating costs. Organic farmers need an increase of at least 4p per liter to return to profitability however the retailers warn that they have little room for maneuver in Britain’s ultra competitive supermarket sector.
Richard Hampton the sales and marketing director of Omsco said: “The costs being incurred by organic producers are rising much faster than for conventional production.” The Britain’s largest organic milk cooperative, which accounts for about 70 percent of UK’s annual production of 450 million liters. The price that gets currently for organic milk is not high enough to cover the cost of production. There will have to be an increase in price that producers receive. Richard Hampton added: “There is a real danger that a supply shortage could take hold rather quickly if just 30 of our larger organic farms revert to non-organic production, we will lose 10 percent of our supplies.”
It expects sales growth of about five percent this year, compared to 30 percent in previous years. The charity pointed out that the lower figure would still outstrip the general grocery market, which expands at between one and two percent a year. The Soil Association said.