eucalyptustree

This may be a little personal, but I often see your written posts (below the comic) and it seems you are either sad, depressed, or just generally very stressed a lot. Are you happy with your work?

(You should be! I love reading QC, and hope that you know how much enjoyment I (and thousands of others) get out of reading your work.)

To add to what RDay said, shake the farmer's hand. If you can find a winter farmer's market near you, that's awesome. If not, wait until the spring or summer, and start to develop a relationship with your farmers at the markets. Get to know them. Ask them about their practices. Tell them you are concerned about the quality of your food, and the way it is farmed. Most small farmers are more than happy to talk about, and show you, their work; almost all of them are proud of what they do, and have nothing to hide.

What about the fact that the third party "organic" auditing labels are largely garbage? How can we as consumers push for more transparency, less green-washing, and stricter standards when it comes to what constitutes organic (and other greenwashing terms - almost none of which are regulated to my knowledge)