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  • From: "Shawnee Flowerfarmer" <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>
  • To: Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] a great resource for organic weed control
  • Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:32:50 -0500


http://www.css.cornell.edu/WeedEco/weeddatabase/index2.html

I refer to the Cornell website often for the latest on organic pest managment of all sorts.  You can, by clicking around a bit, also read the studies of the data they present.  This website, and our beloved ATTRA too of course, have many good alternatives to chemical pest control.

And, without rattling up a debate about organic certifiers please, I would add that the ethics of the grower have always been the best guarantee of sustainability and stewardship long before a certifier arrived in the organic fields, and that even a petrochemical based mulch is preferable to chemical treatment.  Also, there will always be a set of solutions that differ from grower to crop to season to location.  The organic grower needs to be flexible without the pressure of a certifier's regulation unless they have chosen to be regulated.  (Yes, I have been a grower both ways.)

Shawnee, zone 5 on the New Midwest Bayou



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