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Cairnspring Mills Production Requirements and Guidelines for Grain Growers Trailblazer is not "organic", though that's a tricky label that doesn't substitute for understanding products. For example, in the milk market there are major players that sport an organic label while working as hard as they can behind the scenes to weaken what this means. There are well-known chicken brands with "natural" and "organic" variants where the organic chickens eat primarily soy, and don't taste as good as their natural counterparts. In general, for a small business one might encounter at a farmers market, the hurdles for the label are very different from the hurdles for following best practices. I'm reminded of wines in Italy that tire of qualifying for a DOC label, and sell spectacular work as table wine. I'm mildly concerned that RoundUp is used to harvest wheat. As usual, the European Union has moved to ban this practice. Elsewhere, this practice is easily avoided in one's own baking, e.g. by buying from sources like Cairnspring Mills. There are some well-known sources we've all used that don't make a pledge to avoid RoundUp in their flour. Huh.

@Pequod it would have been my pleasure 👍 Next time you are heading up in this direction let me know. I’m actually about 30 miles south of Boston. the Douth Shore, the good shore 😁