by Aleta Kazadi

Created on: April 21, 2009

The Impact of Climate Change on Organic Farming

All living things draw on resources they glean from their environment. Plants are no different. Growing them is limited to the natural resources found in the soil so and they can draws from them. All farming is impacted by climate and further impacted by its changes. Sunny days that are filled with gentle sprinkles produce good water flow.

Farming that does not have essential natural water has a planned irrigation to bring in the water. When the climate changes this upsets the balance of the plan the farmer used to prepare his crops.

Organic farming is as old as farming, and since the beginning of time farming has been dependent on the natural cycles of weather. Wherever you live, if you wish to have a garden or a farm, there are appropriate times to begin your planting season. In colder regions you may even begin seedlings inside to be prepared to plant when the season changes. A season that is either too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry, too early or too late, will deeply harm the yield in its volume or its quality. This is true whether you speak of organic or traditional farming.

However, in the natural scheme of things, the stronger and healthier survive and bear good offsprings. Organic things are stronger because they are full of the healthy elements. To illustrate this concept I will explain using vitamins. You can go to the store and buy vitamins that are very inexpensive or you can buy vitamins that are very expensive. If I ask you which vitamin you would like, you will ask me a question such as which is best, and why. Expensive vitamins are expensive because the full molecule of the vitamin is present.
When you take vitamin C from a fruit it has other parts than ascorbic acid (artificial vitamin c) that are made by the complexities of nature. The healing nature of a natural vitamin c is more comprehensive than the artificial simple chemical vitamin c because of the extra things that nature put in. It is for this reason that health food stores have grown and lots and lots of special brands of natural complex vitamins have flourished. Well your plants are living things as we are. If you go to the local hardware store and buy a nice fertilizer it lacks all the neat little extras nature put in. The result is that in times of climate change the organically farmed plants generally survive better and those that do the best will produce seeds to continue to survive under the new conditions. It is like giving

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