10 Homemade Organic Pesticides for Your Farm or Garden

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For your own health, as well as health of the environment, it’s essential that we move away from the use of chemical pesticides in farming and home gardening.   There are several homemade pesticides that are safe for the environment and they can be equally as effective at fending off pests. Mild soap and water.  One…

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Green Bronx Machine Transforms Kids Lives with Urban Agriculture

Green bronx machine

Amidst New York City’s South Bronx—a place traditionally rife with gang activity, poverty and crime— a thriving population of young urban farmers are greening and beautifying neighborhoods, growing healthy food and providing it to people in need. This is the Green Bronx Machine—led by Stephen Ritz, one very inspiring man. “We are growing ourselves into…

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