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Wholesome Food Association

A part of our smallholding activities involves selling produce like eggs and pork to colleagues, friends and associates. Although we practice organic principles, using no chemicals anywhere and feeding only organic, gm-free feed, it just wouldn't be worth our while at the moment to consider organic certification. Enter stage left the Wholesome Food Association (thanks to the Smallholders On-line newsletter for the prompt).

Now, I've not taken the time yet to read through everything affiliation with the association involves, but at first glance it looks like an ideal alternative to organic certification for small-scale producers like ourselves, and would enable us to advertise the way we produce without risking trouble from the organic bodies. We'll do a bit more research and report back here.