With escalating environmental, health, climate crises tied to petrochemical pesticides and fertilizers, Beyond Pesticides is ...

Organic foods are grown with requirements and practices that improve the environment, but they're not completely necessary ...

Robert Dedlow, owner of Kentor Canyon Farms in Fillmore, cuts organic thyme during a tour of his farm in 2021. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) But depending on how that transition happens, the ...

Last week I started discussing some of the pesticides that can be used if you consider yourself an organic gardener. I started this discussion to help gardeners realize that in organic farming and ...

Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a California county found a surprising effect as their acreage grew: Nearby conventional ...

Expanding organic cropland can lead to increased pesticide use in surrounding conventional fields while reducing pesticide use on nearby organic fields, according to a study based in a leading U.S.

(Beyond Pesticides, May 10, 2024) A study published by scientists in France from La Rochelle University’s Chizé Center for Biological Studies, in collaboration with the University of Strasbourg and ...

All plant lovers know how irritating it is to see their plants getting attacked by pests. While there are many pesticides on the market, most of them contain strong chemicals that can pose a health ...

I am sure everyone knows that we live in a bipolar society. What I mean by this is people’s views are either strong to the left of the spectrum or solid to the right. We stay clear of speaking about ...