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The Dangers of Pesticide Exposure - Go Organic Instead

This is the second in a Hub Series on Organic Gardening at home.  Anyone can do it, and I will show you how!  In this Hub we take a look at the health hazards of using some of the more common pesticides.

0 comments    health home education
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Transgenic Organisms -- Transgenic Plants

What in the world is a transgenic organism? Ever notice the phrase, “Non-GMO” on the food items you pick up at the grocery store? Do you know what it means? GMO actually stands for “Genetically Modified...

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Organic Weed Killer for Your Organic Garden

If you have an organic garden is seems senseless to pollute it with toxic weed killers. You can find organic weed killers are many garden centers, on the Internet, or make your own. Organic weed killers are...

5 comments    recipes organic weed
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Nontoxic Weed Removal - Safe Weed Killers To Help You Get Rid Of These Garden Pests

Weeds strike fear into the heart of every gardener. Read on to find out how to get rid of weeds for good without any harmful chemicals.

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10 Reasons to Choose Organic

Farmers have it rough. Our society is no longer largely agrarian, and yet our population continues to grow, and as a result so do food needs. It is very difficult for small farming operations to keep...

5 comments    health nutrition antibiotics
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The Vanishing Bees, a Quietly Developing Crisis

In recent years there has been an alarming disappearance of honey bee colonies throughout the United States. It has been referred to by beekeepers as CCD or colony collapse disorder. Until recently it was a...

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Killer Compost in the Garden

Through the years, farmers have relied on government officials and agriculture to sustain their crops with chemicals, freeing them from loss of crops through devouring insects and disease and reap the...

0 comments    health technology home
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Feast or famine

As a result of recent food safety issues a bill HR 875, The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 introduced by Rosa Delauro - a democratic representative from Connecticut - in February of 2009. sounds...

0 comments    family home money
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Top 10 garden weedkillers

If you do gardening you definitely need them or in other way i should say that if you know weeds you know them. In this hub i would like to talk about Round up, vigilant, turfix, escort, DAS, Prefix,...

0 comments    garden top 10 escort
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Lawn Gone

Used to be, my neighbours would cast dubious looks at my yard from their own expanses of green. Now, they’re asking me for advice. This spring a ban on cosmetic use of herbicides, fungicides and...

2 comments    gardening lawn care grass
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