Protected Harvest is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing and certifying the use of environmentally and economically sustainable agriculture practices through the development of stringent, transparent and quantifiable standards, incentive-based eco-labeling and public education.

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Protected Harvest’s scientifically-based production standards are divided into nine management areas: scouting, information sources, field management, general pest management, weed management, insect management, disease management, soil and water quality, and crop storage. Growers are required to implement certain Biointensive Integrated Pest Management (BioIPM) practices in order to accumulate the number of points needed for certification. In addition, pesticide use is minimized, as farmers cannot exceed a set number of “toxicity units” established for their crop. Toxicity units are based upon the measurement of active ingredients of individual pesticides to be compared on a pound-for-pound basis.

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