Image of Long Wind Farm's cherry tomatoes on a vine with a farmer holing up rich dark biologically rich soil

The Real Organic Project requires tomatoes to be grown in fertile soil

The USDA allows hydroponic tomatoes to be certified organic

King Grove Organic Farm's field of Blueberry bushes grown in soil

The Real Organic Project requires berries to be grown in fertile soil

The USDA allows hydroponic berries to be certified organic

Butterworks Farm's cows out in a green field grazing

The Real Organic Project requires cows to be raised on pasture

Image of a confined dairy operation where cows are not on pasture but in pens of dirt with little to no grass growing

The USDA allows confinement dairy operations to be certified organic

Coyote Creek Farm's chickens roaming on open pasture

The Real Organic Project requires chickens to be raised on pasture

Aerial image of a confined chicken operation surrounded by pasture but there are no chickens visible

The USDA certifies eggs from chickens who have never been outside

The Real Organic Project was started by farmers to protect the meaning of organic.

We grow food in the soil, not hydroponically. We raise livestock on pasture, not in confinement. In this time of concern about the erosion of integrity in the USDA, Real Organic remains exactly what organic was always intended to be.