According to a new study, it depends. Actually the study didn’t really look at organic foods, it looked at crop yield and nutrient composition. They found that the higher the yield, the lower the nutrient composition. What that means is that even if you are eating organic, it may not yield more nutrients than non-organic foods. Of course you don’t get the pesticides and so forth so that’s a big plus for your health, but this is where wild crafted foods are probably going to be healthier because they are not forcefully concentrated. Even with organic farming we have biointensive gardening and other techniques to get high yield, but from this study, more is not better for nutrition. The study found up to a 40% loss in nutrition with higher yields.  
 
Of course there are ways around this and if you want to learn about them, we are having a bio-intensive gardening class at ECCM with Darren Butler, so you can learn about ways to grow a lot of food that stays nutrient rich.
 
HortScience 44: 6-223 (2009)