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 Of all of the questions and comments we talked about at the farm, I found the discussion on how difficult it is for a farm to be certified organic the most interesting. He said that most organic farms are actually large corporations, and because of that they basically decide what the regulations for an organic farm entails. These standards make owning an organic farm that isn't part of a corporation extremely hard, and because of the regulations many farms, including Pete's Produce Farm, choose not to be organic. This seemed incredibly backwards to me, and was just surprising. It also seems like having an organic label on their foods would be attractive to a small farm with the recent interest nationwide in eating organic, and because of the regulations small farms are probably missing out on a larger profit. 

As most people have mentioned, it took us four gallons of gas to make the round trip to the farm. I don't know how much gas the vans would have saved, but it just bothered me that they even need to have vans to take people to the supermarket. The walk there is probably around 10 minutes or less from Bryn Mawr and I can't imagine that people buy so much food that they can't carry it back to Bryn Mawr. We have limited storage space in the dorms and it's not like any of the students are feeding a family of four. If someone REALLY needs to purchase a lot of food, they should try asking a friend for a ride instead of making a van drive them a couple blocks down the street.