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Greens
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Vegetables
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Having and cultivating your own kitchen-garden
is becoming more than a dream hobby, to many people it has become
a matter of securing health. And rightly so. With the media
constantly exposing accusations of vegetable contamination by
agrochemicals, the population worries more and more about the
quality of their everyday salads.
To wash the greens and leave them soaking in vinegar solutions, or
to peal the skin of vegetables, may diminish but will not
eliminate the residues, for the agrochemicals called "systemic"
are able to permeate the vegetable and will be eaten by the
consumer. |
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Besides, it is a well
known fact that in Brazil the handling of agrochemicals is done with
no proper protection, risking even the lives of landworkers. If, in
one hand, poor schooling and misinformation of workers and
agriculturists – which may induce to mistakes in the proper
dilution and disregard for expiring dates – are the most visible
causes of this problem, other and less evident causes, like the
negligence of professionals and the market’s need for immediacy,
contribute to aggravate environmental contamination as well as cases
of poisoning and death. |
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worker weeding
between cabbages |
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To revert this situation, today’s consumers
have the alternative of finding in the market organic products that
are free from chemical residues. With superior biological and
nutritional qualities, the greens and vegetables produced with
agroecological techniques offer, through seals of certification, the
guarantee of being exempt from products that are toxic for people
and the environment.
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Even if it uses
ingredients from nutritious and protective syrups, rock minerals,
organic fertilizers, extracts from repellent plants and natural
insecticides, an organic kitchen-garden is not based solely on the
use of natural products but also in agroecological procedures. This
means that what matters in the improvement of the soil’s fertility
and in the control of insects and diseases is the understanding of
the system and the way of promoting its ecological balance. There
are no ready-made solutions, each kitchen-garden has its own.
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organic
kitchen-garden with automatic
system of irrigation |
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organic
ready to go at supermarket |
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For those who cannot cultivate their own
kitchen-garden, there is the option of buying certified organic
greens and vegetables from markets, shops, delivery services or
supermarkets. With the multiplication of sales channels, the variety,
plus the quality standards found nowadays, consumers may enjoy their
salads without any worry.
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