With regards to organic gardening, we’ve been there and done that, for about 4 years. My picture was actually published in the Organic Gardening magazine in 1992 when I submitted a short story on composting in the winter.
We stopped because it is labor intensive. If that’s all there is to one’s life, then OK. But it’s not practical on a commercial level. Prepping raised beds, pulling weeds by hand, making organic fertilizer by composting and manure teas, etc, etc.
Now we till with motorized tillers, use herbicides, granular fertilizers. The veggies are just as good and we have time for other things.
We’ve never been organic but they are coming up with some really good organic products that we use.
Not to mention the yield