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Pesticides and pregnancy

The December issue of Environmental Health Perspectives has an interesting article that links childhood cancers – Acute Leukemia and Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma – to the mother’s use of or exposure to pesticides and insecticides during pregnancy.
It’s based on a study done in France that looked at non-agricultural families. This is the first study to test the [...]

Works for Me Wednesday: Organic weedkiller

When you have kids around, or just when you’re concerned about things like, oh, the balance of the ecosystem, there’s a little thing inside you that gets irked by the thought of pesticides. Did you know that you can spray or drop some pure vinegar on your weeds and it’ll kill most of them? You [...]

Watering plants in a drought

Lots of areas in the US are experiencing severe drought right now, and many are exercising water restrictions. Here’s a nifty idea to salvage those trees and plants without draining your municipal water supply.
Landscape USA sells Aqua Cones -6 for $12.99. They screw on to the top of 2-liter soda bottles, and you insert the [...]