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Podcast: Real Organic Podcast
Episode: Emily Oakley: Living Next to a CAFO while Serving on the NOSB
Description: #007: Real Organic farmer Emily Oakley shares her experiences serving on the National Organic Standards Board during the infamous and shocking vote to allow Hydroponics into USDA organic in 2017. She also shares what it's like living next to a chicken CAFO (confined animal feeding operation) in Oklahoma, whether to buy or grow fertility on farms, and how she believes that farmers like her desperately need the solidarity and support of the Real Organic Project to stay in business.Emily Oakley farms with her husband Mike Appel at Three Springs Farm in Oklahoma. She is a former National Organic...