Salto de Aguas Blancas Constanza, República Dominicana🇩🇴🇩🇴 | @1jeffry | 1jeffry · Original audio
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Is it cold in Constanza?
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I was in Constanza, El Rio, Tireo today and it was a high of 19 and it will go down to 13-14 C at night, not exactly tropical but certainly not cold. Aguas Blancas is another 1676 feet (5499 feet altitude) higher than Constanza (3819 feet altitude)
My wife's cousin Carmen, my wife and their 87 year old aunt in El Rio. She is the last surviving member out of 12 children of Otillio Mieses from Granada, Spain.
They use Insecticides, pesticides, fungicides, and chemical fertilizers. I believe there are some organic producers. When they had their agricultural fair earlier in the year, I believe there were two or three organic producers with booths.
Patrick the Vegeman brings organic produce from Constanza to Sosua every week,his list of organics is quite extensive surprisingly.
He gets some of his veggies here in Jarabacoa area as well. I am sure there are quite a few small producers that grow some organic crops.
Would you really trust anything is Organic in the DR no matter how it is labelled?
Whatever that means.
I only trust what I grow myself or get from our gardener, because I know he gets his stuff from his mother, and she only uses Chicken and cow manure for fertilizer and doesn't use any insecticides. She uses vinegar and soap, lemon juice and garlic, or picks the bugs off by hand.
well...... here comes some true insider information; If the grower is exporting the very same products to the US, you might in deed get organic veggys because they (US) do some supervision and checking. If he grows only for the local market; FORGET ABOUT IT !!!!
Is the pope Catholic? Does a bear, never mindSalto de Aguas Blancas Constanza, República Dominicana🇩🇴🇩🇴 | @1jeffry | 1jeffry · Original audio
Salto de Aguas Blancas Constanza, República Dominicana🇩🇴🇩🇴. 1jeffry · Original audio
How do the supervise and check? In the fields of the DR, or do they test once it arrives in the US? It seems like an expensive cat and mouse game.
You are right; Huge Cat and Mouse Game ! Inspections on site are always advised at least a month ahead by FDA, Global Gap etc. Zero Surprise Inspections. But the products are sometimes checked for residues of non organic pestizides etc. after arriving in the US. Also you are not allowed to grow organic for 5 years on a field that was prior used for regular agriculture and you can't grow to closed to a regular field either. Organic crop gets sprayed a lot, just by organic pesticides etc. One extreme example: The poison of a rattle snake it 100% organic....so don't feel to good when biting next time into your organic apple LOL
Absolutely true. I have a friend who grows organic cacao and exports to Switzerland. He acts strictly by the rules, because he knows the minute the inspection finds something it will be game over.