Garden Green

04/09/2026

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The pest doesn't need spraying. It needs a predator. The predator doesn't need buying. It needs a flower.

Plant the right flower and the predator shows up on its own, finds the pest, and does the work for free. The chain assembles itself.

🌱 Five chains that work:

- Aphids → ladybug larvae → plant yarrow. The larvae do the killing — hundreds of aphids each. The yarrow keeps the adults around to lay eggs near the colony

- Tomato hornworms → braconid wasps → let your dill bolt. The wasp lays eggs inside the hornworm. The flowers are the weapon, not the dill leaves

- Slugs → ground beetles → let cilantro flower. The beetles hunt at night while you sleep. The flowers give them daytime shelter

- Cabbage worms → paper wasps → plant fennel. The wasps catch caterpillars, chew them into paste, and feed them to their own larvae. One nest near your brassicas catches dozens a day

- Whiteflies → lacewing larvae → plant cosmos. The larvae have sickle-shaped jaws that drain whiteflies in seconds. The cosmos keeps adult lacewings fed and laying eggs nearby

One flower per pest. The predator does the rest 🌿

02/23/2026

Good on United Plant Savers for refusing funding from the Nature Conservancy because they required the use of toxic herbicides in their plant restoration project.

Introduction Over the past year, United Plant Savers has been engaged in discussions with the Nature Conservancy regarding a stream restoration project. The Nature Conservancy oversees the Ohio Mitigation Program (OMP), a state-run initiative that ...

11/14/2025

The word is getting out, and people are making the connection, finally, between their health and glyphosate.

The world’s most widely used weedkiller is confronting legal battles as well as a cat-and-mouse game with nature. But it’s not clear what can take its place.

10/31/2025

From No More Glyphosate NZ: “Your leadership with Moms Across America has been a huge inspiration for our campaign. The way you’ve combined independent testing with grassroots advocacy helped us shape our own approach here in New Zealand.

We’ll keep testing, monitoring, and holding regulators to account — but today we’re celebrating. And we wanted you to know that your example played a part in making this happen.”

We are deeply honored to know that our collective efforts are inspiring change across the globe — together, we truly are creating a safer, healthier world for all families.

New Zealand listened to over 3,000 citizen submissions, and chose to protect consumers. Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to approve pre-harvest spraying, a practice known to leave significant residues in cereals and breakfast foods eaten by our kids every day.

At Moms Across America, we applaud New Zealand’s courage and commitment to transparency, accountability, and public health. It’s time for the U.S. to do the same.

10/31/2025

Oh, the lucky Kiwis. They can eat bread, crackers, and other grains without ingesting glyphosate used to kill the plants at the end of the season for crop uniformity. Unlike here, where it is a very common practice, and recommended by County Extension Agents.

From No More Glyphosate NZ: “Your leadership with Moms Across America has been a huge inspiration for our campaign. The way you’ve combined independent testing with grassroots advocacy helped us shape our own approach here in New Zealand.

We’ll keep testing, monitoring, and holding regulators to account — but today we’re celebrating. And we wanted you to know that your example played a part in making this happen.”

We are deeply honored to know that our collective efforts are inspiring change across the globe — together, we truly are creating a safer, healthier world for all families.

New Zealand listened to over 3,000 citizen submissions, and chose to protect consumers. Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to approve pre-harvest spraying, a practice known to leave significant residues in cereals and breakfast foods eaten by our kids every day.

At Moms Across America, we applaud New Zealand’s courage and commitment to transparency, accountability, and public health. It’s time for the U.S. to do the same.

07/13/2025

It's about time that the sale of these invasive plants is banned in nurseries! Good news!

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07/07/2025

The pesticide industry keeps doing this, over and over. A new pesticide is introduced, and little testing is done on non-target organisms. One or maybe two insect, one or maybe two fish, are selected as representative of all the non-target insects and fish to test the toxicity of the new pesticide. If the toxicity to these non-target species is acceptable, then it's off to the races, until disturbing news of illness and death of humans and pets and non-target species. If the news is very disturbing, that particular pesticide is quietly removed from the shelf.

But that's OK, because they have another new pesticide waiting in the wings to start the process all over again.

Here is the latest:https://phys.org/news/2025-06-common-farm-fungicide-contributing-insect.html