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Pesticides and Herbicides are poison, plain and simple.  They were created to help us manage pests such as harmful insects, arachnids, rodents and weeds.
Unfortunately, whatever is lethal to a pest or a weed will usually cause illness in human adults and even more severe symptoms in children and pets. They are poison for our families [...]

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A few weeks ago, I noticed little holes in my brussel sprout plants and then cabbage plants. They were small holes. Until one day they were not small holes anymore. So as I was perusing some garden blogs, I came a across Marks Garden Desk’s Article, Organic Gardening Techniques Don’t Always Work and [...]

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Today, I decided it was finally time to flip my compost pile. Maybe it was that nasty smell that was coming from it or maybe all the squash plants that were growing from it decided to die down enough so I could get close to it.
Anyway, as I dug in my spade, I got a [...]

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