Hmmm.. you'd be surprised, mate; I did spend time in the West part of England and the occasional use of artificial pesticide was not uncommon especially when your top soil has been washed away and been battered due to flooding/erosion like it was in 2014 during those storms.
Organic is a label, that while better than conventional is not to be blindly accepted as a panacea--that is why the community part of CSA should not be forgotten.
I would be surprised, yes. There is a very short list of pesticides that can be used and a slightly longer list that can be used with specific permission.
Which pesticides were being used on your farm? And did the farm lose organic certification.
But even more - what has pesticide use got to do with top-soil loss? I'm not quite clear.
Organic is a label, that while better than conventional is not to be blindly accepted as a panacea--that is why the community part of CSA should not be forgotten.