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The history of organic gardening isn’t as recent as some may think. Organic agriculture can be dated back to thousands of years when we used to till our own soil, plant our own crops and then harvest them ourselves.

When the demand for produce increased we began using chemical herbicides, insecticides, synthetic herbicides and fertilizers on crops to keep up. This style of industrial agriculture was adapted by most countries around the world by the 1950’s.

Cultivating crops industrially was highly efficient, yet as many people have come to realize, by eating the produce grown this way they were also consuming the chemicals themselves.

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