This is the final installment of Rethinking the Traditional American Lawn, a four-part series by High Country Gardens founder and chief horticulturist, David Salman. Salman also writes The Xeric Gardener. Click here for Part I, Part II and Part III. News Flash: Dandelions Are Flowers, Too Villainized by chemical lawn-care companies for decades, these harmless little plants have a greater place in our pollin ...

NOTE: Last Tuesday advocates for and against the Child Safe Playing Fields Act in New Hampshire made their arguments. What follows is a recap from Ellen Fine, founder of the Leah Collective. Witnesses, like Dr. Alex Lu of Harvard who is on an ad hoc committee overseeing the Environmental Protection Agency, testified in favor of HB #495; he promised the committee that if NH passed this law, he would seek fun ...

This will hit the national media wires on Monday, Feb. 28 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATLANTA, GA. — EcoSMART Technologies, Inc., the world’s leading producer of organic pesticides, and the only company that produces a complete line of EPA Exempt pesticides in the United States, announced today it is joining forces with the SafeLawns Foundation on a series of events to promote safer lawn and gardening in North Am ...

The SafeLawns Foundation Turns 5 Today [caption id="attachment_2911" align="alignleft" width="533" caption="Reasons to stay home . . . Aimee, 4, and Angie, 1."][/caption] THIS WILL BE ONE OF THOSE WEEKS in life where reflections slap you in the face, hit you over the head and buckle your knees. For me, it’s a time when life’s work and clock will make a rare convergence to force a rather peripatetic person t ...

NOTE: This is the second in a two-part series centered around our conversations with Howard Vlieger in the past two weeks, including additional information that has come to light about Monsanto, the manufacturer of Roundup, in the past 48 hours. Bio-Chem Giant Openly Lies About Scientific Studies Concerning Roundup AND SO IT BEGINS. Just as Col. Don Huber, among the most trusted military leaders and scienti ...

"People were so enthralled, you could hear a pin drop . . . " "Seeing the film galvanized the people in the town to take action . . . " "If Canada can ban lawn chemicals, we should, and can, do it here, too . . . " THOSE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE THOUSANDS OF COMMENTS we have heard in the past 16 months since the film, A Chemical Reaction, premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in Montreal. Director Bret ...

NOTE: Since our publication of Col. Don Huber's letter to the United States Department of Agriculture warning of the dire consequences of too much weed-killer known as Roundup in the soil, validation of his concerns has come from numerous sources. This note is from Jim Martindale, a consultant with North American Ag-Gro and President of Soil Regeneration Unlimited: I know from observations in dairy herds in ...

SAVE THE DATE/MEDIA ALERT National Leaders to Focus on Emerging Legislation, Product Alternatives SEATTLE — Amidst an avalanche of disturbing scientific data and proposals of sweeping legislative reform, North America’s leaders in the lawn and garden alternative pesticide industry will gather in Seattle, June 4, for the first Northwest Lawn & Garden Pesticide Summit. Presented by the Rodale Institute, the C ...

Organic lawn care doesn't really conform to a step-by-step process, but here are all the points to consider when you plan out your organic lawn makeover: ...

News that Roundup May Be Causing Miscarriage Has Been Slow to Catch On Just as Col. Don Huber's letter that we revealed here seven days ago is becoming widely circulated on the Internet in various sites, a key piece of information has become available this evening. Huber, a former Emeritus Professor at Purdue University and coordinator at the American Phytopathological Society that studies plant diseases an ...