{"id":137139,"date":"2022-03-20T09:03:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T16:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/indiana-farmers-embracing-organic-methods-as-demand-for-products-grows"},"modified":"2022-03-20T09:03:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T16:03:55","slug":"indiana-farmers-embracing-organic-methods-as-demand-for-products-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/indiana-farmers-embracing-organic-methods-as-demand-for-products-grows","title":{"rendered":"Indiana farmers embracing organic methods as demand for products grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/indiana-farmers-embracing-organic-methods-as-demand-for-products-grows2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ANDERSON \u2014 For Sam Johnson, organic farming isn\u2019t only a practical way of protecting the environment. It\u2019s also a vital part of a healthy lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy main reason for doing it is just to get away from all these problems we\u2019re having with herbicide and pesticide resistance,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe\u2019re just getting back to the natural ways our bodies process food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Organic farming is becoming undeniably more mainstream in the U.S. agriculture industry. According to an analysis of data in the USDA\u2019s 2019 Survey of Organic Agriculture by <a href=\"http:\/\/Commodity.com\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Commodity.com\">Commodity.com<\/a><\/a>, the number of organic farms in the U.S. rose by more than 50% in the last decade. The country\u2019s estimated 16,500 organic farms now cover about 5.5 million acres, a 38% increase from 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANDERSON \u2014 For Sam Johnson, organic farming isn\u2019t only a practical way of protecting the environment. It\u2019s also a vital part of a healthy lifestyle. \u201cMy main reason for doing it is just to get away from all these problems we\u2019re having with herbicide and pesticide resistance,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe\u2019re just getting back to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}