Can Hydroponic Growing Ever be considered Organic?

To throw another view out there, I have a plot on an organic allotment site. The rule is no pesticides or other chemical bug or weed killers, or anything that would kill essential life.

We have bees, frogs, and other life on site for that.

That said, we are allowed non-organic fertilisers and composts although the main source of nutrients is manure and leaf mould.

Is our allotment organic?

Some would say yes, some would say no.

I would say we are. My concern with choosing organic over non-organic is pesticides and things like that anyway.

I feel just as much joy eating our produce as any food produced using more strict organic methods. Once nutrients are inside the plant they are the same anyway as far as I am aware, if someone knows otherwise let me know.

I recently dived deep into cellular level root function, no-dig (no-till), fungus, bacteria, plant succession, and plant processes and I am more happy running hydro than I was before.

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