Yep, that's the article.

My oldest son, who just graduated from SUNY ESF (Environmental Sciences and Forestry) is always reminding me that it is more important to consider sustainability in agriculture rather than simply organic.

If we can be organic and sustainable, that's the easiest choice. But when "organic" translates to "unsustainable" for the planet, we may be making bad choices - as in when burning petroleum to transport food supplies that provide less energy than the transportation energy consumed to get them to their destination.

Any time that "organic" is "unsustainable", you simply aren't doing the "organic" correctly. One of the biggest things in "organic" is conservation (of water, soil and food diversity). Nothing in "organic" is "unsustainable" if it is done correctly.

Local organically grown food is my first choice and it should not be one or the other. There are more and more organic farms appearing around here, what in my grandfathers day were called "truck farms". You need to be careful at the local farmers market because there are those there that are not farmers. There are some that buy produce off the market, from California and elsewhere but market it as if they grew it.

Bill,

Organic can be unsustainable if we choose organic produce from afar over locally grown produce.