(Beyond Pesticides, May 20, 2021) Beyond Pesticides and Friends of the Earth (FOE) collaborated to analyze herbicide products at two of the most popular home and garden retailers, Home Depot and ...

Last week I started discussing some of the pesticides that can be used if you consider yourself an organic gardener. I started this discussion to help gardeners realize that in organic farming and ...

Annie and Dennis Holtz worked hard this spring to establish their organic farm on 10 and a half acres in Beecher. On the south side of Corning Road, cover crops of crimson clover, oats and peas form a ...

Weeds. Nobody wants them. But, lately, the subject has taken over everything in rural Sherman County — the talk around town, email servers, even the local high school gymnasium. At issue is whether a ...

It's about this time every year that homeowners start stressing about how to kill the cool-season weeds that are showing up. Corn gluten meal is often mentioned, but it has no weed control properties ...

In the ongoing search to find a cost-effective alternative to controversial herbicide RoundUp, Village Management Services staff officer Kurt Wiemann presented his team’s findings on Thursday, April ...

Taking unusually swift action for a government process, the Irvine City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved using organic pesticides and herbicides on all city-maintained landscaping, including at ...

In 1989, the Agriculture Department at Western Illinois University identified a historically pesticide-free, limited-fertilizer, 80-acre farm located near the WIU campus. From 1989 through 2002, we ...