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Garlic pesticide
Use garlic to get rid of this little bugger. Garlic is widely regarded as a ‘superfood’, and I’m not even really sure what that means. Whatever it is, the fact is that different scientific research keeps on confirming what the[...] |
Pollen, Not Pesticide
It all started with a plastic bear, one almost identical to those at which honey aficionados scoff. This bear, however, did not reside on a shelf in some American grocery store, but instead in a quintessential Parisian shop, pristine and[...] |
Homemade Organic Pesticide
While living in a hotel is not much fun, I love being somewhere new and I'm having a great time training for my new position at Market District! Did you know that the Market District at which I will be working is the first one outside of[...] |
There's a New PESTicide in Town
When I was pregnant with my first child, we had a lovely lettuce patch in our backyard garden. Before I was in the family way, I very much enjoyed heading out to pluck a few succulent leaves for a salad or to top my sandwich, but my hormone[...] |
Obama Nominates Pesticide Lobbyist as Chief Agricultural Negotiator
Haven?t heard of Islam Siddiqui? You should know him. The Obama administration preferred if you didn’t, but you should know him. Why? Because he may soon have the power to directly influence the food you eat. President Obama[...] |
Home Sweet Home
After 5 days of working out in the hotel gym..... Living out of a tiny hotel refrigerator..... Eating mainly sushi, salads, and peanut butter (and missing my homemade ice cream!).... I returned home for the weekend! I[...] |
Pesticide
Beer 2 Garlic cloves 1 ts Hot peppers 1 c Water Homemade pesticide: To keep snails and ants away use beer. Place beer in pie tin and set tin into dirt, level with the ground. Bugs don't like dead bugs: Gather together a collection of dead[...] |
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99 Cents Stores: Pesticide Alert!
I Smell a Rat. "EPA Fines 99 Cents Only Stores for Selling Unregistered or Mislabeled Pesticides"?!? But I've bought bags of organic spinach and greens, and potatoes and other veggies from this place... My first thought was, Augh! What have I been[...] |
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Wholesome Wednesdays: Neem
I've been using neem in several of my recent projects, so i thought it appropriate to write a little elaboration on this magical plant. Disclaimer: pretty much all of this information will be gleaned from other sources, which i will list at the[...] |
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Organic Apples ? good or bad?
If there was a ”most doused in pesticides contest,” apples would win , says Mark Kastel, former executive for agribusiness and codirector of the Cornucopia Institute, a farm-policy research group that supports organic foods. Why? As[...] |
