Organic NZ

HYDROPONICS Can it count as organic?

When this magazine was launched in 1942 it was called Compost Club Magazine. Many are attached to the name – and for good reason. Regenerating soils with organic matter and protecting their fertility for future generations remains a core value for many of you, as well as for us, and for the publisher of Organic NZ – the Soil & Health Association.

Today the importance of soils is headline news – for food security, for biodiversity and for carbon sequestration.

Soil fertility is a core value of organics and this commitment is shared with the wider concept of regenerative agriculture, which organics is part

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