Thank you for the compliments about my garden. In my little village the people call my garden 'an organised chaos'

Jonna, I love your organized chaos. It would be so much fun to walk through your garden and look at the individual plants, to see what surprises there are to behold.

valleylynn said:Jonna, I love your organized chaos. It would be so much fun to walk through your garden and look at the individual plants, to see what surprises there are to behold.

Thank you both.

What about a green heart for 'organic'?

you probably would not be able to read the word organic across a micro badge. The letters would be to small.

Is a green "O" to simple?

Or something like a sprayer or chemical bottle under a big "NO" symbol - you know, the red circles with the slash across? I am not sure what you could put under the "no" symbol that would represent organic.

The trouble is, the word Organic is a trademarked name, owned and administered by the USDA. I'm not sure what legal issues there would be in having the name or logo in a badge...

Ah. bit of a sticky wicket eh?

A bit :roll eyes:

Isn't there another word for 'organic' that means the same?

Natural?

I know that it's meaning isn't as concise as we might like it to be, but how about "natural" gardening? Natural is one of the many descriptive terms for the word organic.


Hi, Jonna!

That's a great picture of your garden!

Ann, we were thinking along the same lines at the same time....

Chelle, "natural" gardening

The WORD organic is trademarked?

Dictionary.com says "Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English: pertaining to an organ of the body < Latin organicus by or employing a mechanical device, instrumental < Greek organikós equivalent to órgan(on) organ + -ikos -ic"

Can you really trademark a word that originated in 1350?

Karen

flaflwrgrl said:Speaking of that ~~~ on my father's side --- his father came over from Holland & his mother's grandparents came over. Yes, I guess the Dutch love to travel the world.

Weren't the Dutch some of the first explorers, too?

kqcrna said:The WORD organic is trademarked?

Dictionary.com says "Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English: pertaining to an organ of the body < Latin organicus by or employing a mechanical device, instrumental < Greek organikós equivalent to órgan(on) organ + -ikos -ic"

Can you really trademark a word that originated in 1350?

Karen

This.

If you use lower case instead of upper case, is it still trademarked?

Yes Mary but let's get back on topic or Dave will throw us in the sandbox ~~~ which we are oh so familiar with.

Oops. Cross posted.

Could you use the term Growing Organically. With the bottle with no symbol the Juli suggested.

I sort of like the idea of a little green heart with an "o" in it....