“It all starts with the soil.” As many gardeners know, improving soil quality with organic matter is essential for growing healthy plants. Many gardeners rely on manure and compost to improve soil ...

In Santa Rosa, Calif., the folks at Grab n’ Grow have been making compost and planting mixes for 25 years, using organic materials generated in Sonoma County. In 2002, the company detected residues of ...

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Growing food, for reasons I haven't quite got to the bottom of, is an intensely emotional process. The satisfaction I get from harvesting a good crop bears no relationship to any value that crop ...

Twisted, buckled and puckered leaves, bulging yellow veins and contorted growth going nowhere: damage by weedkiller residue is back. It never really went away, but its comeback promises even more ...

(Beyond Pesticides, July 2, 2008) Gardeners in the United Kingdom (UK) have been warned not to eat home-grown vegetables that have been exposed to the new and persistent herbicide, aminopyralid.

This pea plant shows the cupped leaves that indicate the soil contains damaging levels of a potent herbicide. Last fall, our report on manure, hay and compost contaminated with Milestone herbicide ...

Ellie Henke is a Talkeetna gardener with a problem in her beds. A weed scientist with the UAF Cooperative Extension Service and a UAA environmental chemist are working together on a solution.

(Beyond Pesticides, August 6, 2010) Organic farmers and gardeners across a Washington state county suspect that herbicide-contaminated manure and compost obtained from non-organic farms and dairies ...

Manure containing the previously-banned aminopyralid herbicide has been found in gardens and allotments despite being reinstated under tighter controls. Aminopyralid was reintroduced in April with ...

The U.S. Forest Service is seeking comments on a proposal to add the herbicide aminopyralid to the list of available herbicides on the Deschutes and Ochoco national forests and the Crooked River ...