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[caption id="attachment_2289" align="alignleft" width="518" caption=" Jeremy Brunner and John Harrison, sales and marketing support manager, hold an original bag of Espoma fertilizer."][/caption] IF YOU HAVE LIVED anywhere East of the Mississippi in the past half century and you happened to wander into the well-used potting shed of a true, died-in-the-wool gardener, you would almost certainly find a simple, ...

A scene played out Tuesday afternoon that I've probably witnessed 50 times across the U.S. and Canada in the past two years. I was among about 75 people in town council chambers in Scarborough, Maine, where the fast-growing municipality was considering an ordinance to ban the applications of pesticides around schools and other public property. The three councilors and mayor were clearly stunned at the crowd ...

The evidence continues to stack up against the world's most widely used pesticide: http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/10/roundup-suffocates-human-cells.html ...

[caption id="attachment_2275" align="alignleft" width="600" caption="Oil companies would like to see California's landmark emissions bill suspended."][/caption] In 2006, the state of California set the national standard with passage of a Global Warming Solutions Act, which mandates that the state clean up its environmental emissions behavior by the year 2020. The law, one of the major impetuses behind Calif ...

[caption id="attachment_2269" align="alignleft" width="525" caption="Lawn pesticides continue to make the news every single day in Canada."][/caption] Though much of Canada has already banned the applications of synthetic chemical pesticides used to kill weeds and insects on public and private property, some cities and towns are still holding out. It appears, however, it won't be long in many areas. In Edmo ...

[caption id="attachment_2262" align="alignleft" width="468" caption="(Dan Delventhal photo)"][/caption] A FEW DAYS AGO we blogged about new propane technology that was licensed by Fiskars. Today a SafeLawns member from Connecticut sent us a photo of what he believes might be the future of power mowers. Dan Delventhal, the founder of www.mowgreen.us, is a major proponent of reel mowers in his thriving busine ...

[caption id="attachment_2257" align="alignleft" width="504" caption="This NOFA organic lawn care course in 2006 demonstrated equipment used for top-dressing compost."][/caption] The Northeast Organic Farmers Association have pioneered standards and teaching for organic lawn care. The next five-day course has just been scheduled for Newburyport, Mass., a beautiful coastal town north of Boston near the New Ha ...

[caption id="attachment_2254" align="alignleft" width="504" caption="Rep. Suzanne Smith addresses the legislative sub-committee in New Hampshire in February. Ellen Fine sits immediately to Smith's right (dressed in brown). Jim Campanella is standing in the far corner (dressed in a black suit). "][/caption] CONCORD — As we predicted just a few days ago, the fate of the anti-pesticide movement in New Hampshir ...

[caption id="attachment_2246" align="alignleft" width="504" caption="Core aeration leaves plugs of soil and turf on the surface, where they will quickly break down back into the lawn."][/caption] Folks in the northern tier of the United States and across Canada seem to be genetically programmed to perform two lawn tasks in the fall no matter what: apply lime and aerate the soil. And while that's an overexag ...