A lot of small-scale agriculture aims for organic growth and gives us healthy food, yes. But hydroponics could do so much to increase the amount of food grown organically and thus geared for healthy eaters. What looks fresh and green is not necessarily healthy and ready to give our bodies the amount of nutrition we need. We could be ingesting some very harmful chemicals as we eat what we think is nutritious food. And these are harmful chemicals that could wreak a lot of havoc urea, sulfur, chlorides chemical fertilizer components and pesticidal substances that are demeaning the use of the word organic' for the food you eat.
Hydroponics gives us healthy food, yes. Healthy, nutritious and tasty food that keeps us going. What hydroponics does in its effort to be more organic is it eliminates soil and all soil-based chemical additives by taking nutrition straight to the recipients the roots of your hydroponics plants.
Even if growers who participate in soil-based agriculture refrain from using chemical products on their crops, you have no way of knowing whether chemicals that seep in from other sources like underwater tables and aerosol sprays.
The isolated growing that hydroponics allows you to experiment with where all resources are refined and assembled by you, and hence keenly scrutinized, lets you opt for a more organic approach to organic hydroponics. Sounds funny? When you keep track of every little change made to your hydroponics system, you are secure in the knowledge that you give your hydroponics plants only the best nutrients, devoid of poisonous chemical additives that could harm them irreparably or harm future consumers of your hydroponics crop. Spiffy-clean grow rooms with systematic lighting and nutrient distribution streamline the hydroponics growing process, making it a wee bit safer and more organic.
