Buying Bee-Safe Plants for Your Garden Spring is coming and that means Xerces staff email inboxes will soon be peppered with requests for guidance on buying nursery plants. Many will contain questions like this: "I am excited about creating my first pollinator garden! I’ve heard that...
We all have the right to food grown without toxic pesticides Unless you and your family are eating a completely organic diet, chances are you’ve got plenty of pesticides in your body. Two recent peer-reviewed studies (which I co-authored) provide fresh evidence that we are exposed...
Going Organic Just Got Easier with the Merryfield App Merryfield is a new app to help you eat and live organically by rewarding organic purchases. While organic food can be more expensive than conventional products, the Merryfield app is a simple way to gain “Everyday Rewards”...
Organic Diet Drastically Reduces Glyphosate Levels A new study shows levels of glyphosate (aka Roundup) in families drop dramatically after one week of eating organic A new study done by Friends of the Earth found that levels of the pesticide glyphosate in participants’ bodies dropped an average of...
Deciding to Go Organic? First Steps to Introducing Organic into Your Diet Making the decision to go organic can be a little perplexing without knowing a place to start off. There are several things to consider before starting, like why are you going organic? Is it for...
Go Organic Salutes: Safer Biorational/Biopesticides Moving pest management away from toxic pesticides Pesticides vary in their toxicity and in their potential to cause undesirable human and exological impacts. Pest control materials that are effective on the target pest, yet relatively non-toxic with few ecological side-effects are sometimes...
Country Pleasures Farm and its Organic Willow Oaks Ciders Eric and Lori Leitzel Rice craft their farmhouse style cider from certified organic American heirloom apples on their 35 acre farm in Middletown, Maryland. Willow Oaks Cider has won the Governor’s Cup Gold and Silver medals in 2017 and...
Go Organic Salutes: Town of Somerset, Maryland The Town of Somerset has been proudly practicing pesticide-free lawn care and landscaping on town-owned property since 2013. Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh spoke at the town’s recent rain garden dedication. In 2015, concerns of Maryland’s decimated bee population, public...
Go Organic Salutes: KW Landscaping KW Landscaping has been involved in transitioning an area of the State House grounds to organic care, a pilot project in progress. Kevin Wengernuk launched KW Landscaping, Inc in 1993. While he had experimented with organic approaches from the early beginnings of...
Go Organic Salutes: MOM’s Organic Markets When we want to cast a strong vote with our dollar, shopping at MOM’s Organic Market heads our list. From humble beginnings working out of his mom’s garage in 1978, MOM’s founder Scott Nash has grown this family-owned organic market...