That may not be the case for organic farmers.
"Did you know you have an organic farmer just the other side of town?"
But we're both organic farmers as well, so we might skew the data a bit.
The department has also provided a grant to help organic farmers with marketing and certification.
There are over 1,000 organic farmers operating in Britain at the moment.
California was the first to certify organic farmers, in the mid-1970's, she said.
Such a system would be particularly useful in helping small organic farmers compete.
She knows a lot about organic farmers, spending hours on the phone with them every week, placing orders, listening to their problems.
But even as the rules were refined, small organic farmers had trouble with the fine print.
I should have been a health inspector, or maybe an organic farmer.