Speech by Gavin Middleton, Organics Aotearoa New Zealand, to the "Fonterra Organics Conference", Matamata, Tuesday June 17, 2008.
One of my favourite things about being involved in the organic sector is that we are such a close-knit community. It's great traceability - I can shop at the supermarket but know where my food came from. Unlike many other city-dwellers, I can pick a product off the shelf knowing who grew it, the state of their farm and their animals, and then come to Fieldays - or conferences like this - and meet the people whose hard work I appreciate at dinner time.
