Now Available for Sale!
The Second Edition
of
Earth Friendly Alternatives
to herbicides, pesticides, and household chemicals
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In 2002, Stonington Garden Club created a concise 46-page guide, Earth
Friendly Alternatives to herbicides, pesticides, and household chemicals, to
educate its members, the community, and other garden clubs about the dangers of
frequently used gardening chemicals. It
sold 3,000 copies, won two awards so far, and is still in demand.
Why is
earth friendly gardening so important? As
“Chilling Facts” throughout the booklet show, toxic chemicals don’t simply
disappear. They fall onto
people’s skin and into the air we breathe, wash into drinking water sources,
cover the grass on which children and pets play, and build up over time in human
tissues as well as those of produce and animals in the food chain.
These chemicals contribute to many devastating diseases that have become
common in only a few decades.
Synthetic
fertilizers add to this chemical build up.
They over-acidify the soil, killing beneficial microorganisms necessary
for healthy plants, then wash into streams, causing excess nitrogen that
depletes the water’s oxygen levels and ability to support life.
Chapter one
of Earth Friendly Alternatives explains pesticides impact on human
health. The remaining eight
chapters outline easy ways to garden and clean organically, without chemicals.
They cover improving the soil, garden pest management, animal pest
deterrents, safe weed control, organic lawn care, smart watering, even plant
cures for toxic soil (phytoremediation), and chemical free household cleaning.
Created as an
educational project for Stonington Garden Club, its members would like to share
what they’ve learned with other clubs and communities.
This second, 60-page edition is now being offered at wholesale prices
(for orders of 50 copies of more) to allow other clubs to increase awareness of
these dangers in their community while raising funds for their own conservation
projects.
Retail
price: $6.00 each (see table
below for shipping rates)
Free shipping on orders of 10 books or more to one address.
Wholesale sales
for orders of 50 copies or more:
$4 each, plus shipping (see table below)
To
order:
Make checks payable to The Stonington Garden Club
Mail to:
Stonington Garden Club
P.O. Box 385
Stonington, CT 06378
Please be sure to
state the number ordered and your shipping address.
Questions can be e-mailed to gguyol@aol.com
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The
revised Earth Friendly Alternatives
Table of
Contents
Introduction
I
Pesticides Impact on Human Health
Cancer
and asthma are increasing
Pesticide
use is going to increase
Don’t
use chemical pesticides – use only organics and as a last resort
Be
protected even if using organic pesticides
Children
are especially vulnerable
II
Improving the Soil
What
kind of soil do you have?
Essential
plant elements
Preparing
the soil
Compost—a
gardener’s best friend
Simple,
single ingredients that work
So you
really want to make your own compost
To
contain or not
Earthworm
composting
Fertilizing
plants
Soils and
organic seed starting
Biodynamic
farming
III
Garden Pest Management
What is IPM?
Natural
controls
Beneficial
insect controls
Pesticides:
least toxic
Botanical
pesticides
Down to
business suggestions
Ants, inside
and outside
Tips for
repelling mosquitoes and bugs
IV
Animal Pests
Birds
Cats
Deer
Dogs
Gophers
Mice
and other rodents
Moles
Rabbits
Woodchucks
V
Weed Control
Out,
out, damned weeds
Mulching
Avoiding
certain chemicals
Read before
you weed
Invasive
weeds
Not all weeds
are bad
VI
Lawn Care
Overfed
lawns
Fertilizer
facts
Feed the soil
and not the grass
Rx for lawns
VII
Watering
Of
compost
Mulching
benefits
Drip
irrigation and soaker hoses
Water
less frequently
VIII
Plant Cures for Toxic Soil
Introducing
Phytoremediation
Environmental
cleanup using plants
Some
specific applications
Plants/trees
and the toxins they remove
IX
Household Cleaning
Products
considered hazardous
4
Steps to reducing hazardous home products
General
rules
Alternative
cleaning products
Examples of
environmentally safe cleaning
Reduce world
wide chemical use
(Plus, 19 Chilling Facts about all the health risks and seven cartoons to make you chuckle instead of getting depressed by these little-known but well-documented facts.)
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