Sugar is sugar – and it's sustainable
There is a farmer behind everything you choose in the grocery store. Even sugar.
“Pesticides, GMOs, roundup, the word natural....fear-mongering in the grocery store needs to stop. People are guilted into paying more for equally safe food due to a meaningless label.”
As a full time farmer (she grows sugar beets, corn, wheat, rye, and dry edible beans) and mom in the thumb of Michigan, Rita Herford wishes people would pay more attention to experts when making their food-buying purchases. A fan of American-grown groceries, she wants consumers to know that “farmer” is not synonymous with “farmers market.”
"Farmers are not over-using pesticides; we don't want to use them, but sometimes it is necessary. Nature is disease, fungi, bugs, and microbes trying to infest food we are trying to grow. I eat food from the grocery store, too!"
If you’re curious about crop protection and the many forces working AGAINST farmers as they work to grow the foods we buy (in many different places), listen in on Herford’s perspectives as a farmer, mom of three young daughters, and consumer.
For more information on crop protection, visit https://www.nifa.usda.gov/grants/programs/crop-protection-pest-management-program.
Follow Herford on Instagram , on Facebook and on Twitter @herfordrita to learn more.