Leesa enjoying the Organic Festival at City Farm

Hi Everyone,
Happy New Year to you all.  Welcome to our first Enews for 2012.  How about last week? Hope you all managed to stay cool and didn't lose too much in your garden.

OGAWA will be having its own stall at Perth Sun Fair, so if anyone can spare any time to help out, it would be much appreciated.  I am also looking for help for Garden Week as well.  It should be a great 5 day event with plenty of talks happening and plenty of people with questions.  I need some information from all you commercial members as well.  It would be great to have a few flyers/business cards/products so that the general public will know where to get real organic products.

This year is the “Year of the Farmer”.  It is a year long celebration of the vital role our farmers play in feeding the many who have not yet discovered how to grow their own food.  I am sure there will be plenty of events happening throughout the year, so let’s celebrate their hard work.

Cheers
Leesa Caldwell

To view the slideshow of photos from this year's Organic Festival click here

What does the term Organic Mean?

Organic farming uses the earth's natural resources for sustainability. It emphasises appropriate land management and aims to ecologically achieve the balance between animal life, the natural environment and food crops.

Organic farmers do not use pesticides, herbicides, genetically modified foods, growth promoters or hormones. Organic meat, poultry, eggs and dairy products come from animals that are given no antibiotics or growth hormones.

The produce that is produced through Organic farming is thus at its most natural form.