Category: Information
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Squash Bug Devastation
I did a little experiment. I noticed a bunch of squash bugs on my zucchini plant earlier this week. I decided to NOT do anything about it, just to see if a natural predator would come along and clean up the mess for me. Turns out these critters are lethal! In a few short days my healthy cucubrit was dead.…
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The Dirty Dozen
The Dirty Dozen. Yes, it’s a ’67 American war film but it’s also the name of a list of 12 fresh fruits and produce that should be purchased organically whenever humanly possible. Why should you fork out your hard earned money for organic? Because doing so can lower the volume of pesticides you consume daily…
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Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen
EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce (click link for full article) Eating fresh food is very valuable, but what if that food is contaminated with a bunch of pesticides that you really do not want to ingest? Use EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides to reduce your exposures as much as possible, but eating conventionally-grown produce…