Re: The Importance of Organic

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That's nearly scary. I didn't listen to her explanation of what Bud Nip is/does.

Just seeing the non organic sweet potato not growing and all the leaves on the

organic ones - amazing.

Andresa

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called THE NOTMILK NEWSLETTER. This little girl is showing the importance of

using organic produce.

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[Guest guest]

And you didn't invite US??? haruummmph! Sounds lovely! I am the opposite-I

try to grow my veggies as tiny as possible so they fit in my containers.. Your

cabbage sounds bigger than my garden, lol. Glad you had some yummies!

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> Speaking of cabbage. I had the family over for our traditional St. Patty's

dinner at the homestead. Corned beef and cabbage with boiled potatoes and Irish

soda bread.

> The cabbages that I grow are so huge, that one - that's right one - fed 11

adults, 3 children and two toddlers. And I served a large garden salad

completely from by garden. My daughter-in-law, who is very picky, would have a

fit if she knew all of what was in it. Dandelion greens and flowers, nasturtiums

petals and other edible weeds.

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[Guest guest]

And you didn't take a photo of that cabbage??

lol

Melody

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> Speaking of cabbage. I had the family over for our traditional St. Patty's

dinner at the homestead. Corned beef and cabbage with boiled potatoes and Irish

soda bread.

> The cabbages that I grow are so huge, that one - that's right one - fed 11

adults, 3 children and two toddlers. And I served a large garden salad

completely from by garden. My daughter-in-law, who is very picky, would have a

fit if she knew all of what was in it. Dandelion greens and flowers, nasturtiums

petals and other edible weeds.

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[Guest guest]

EW, where did you get your data about Bt being harmful to bees. Everything I

have seen shows it has low level or no toxicity to bees. In fact I have seen

recommendations to spray it on the honeycomb in the hive to kill wax moth

infestations. (If anyone wants to be grossed out look up wax moth in google

images.) The Bt used in organic crop production needs to be ingested by

lepidoptera (moth and butterfly) larva and then something in the digestive

system of the larvae activates the Bt and it kills them. That makes it very

safe; if you or I or any other creature ate Bt there would be no problem because

it doesn't respond to our digestive system. Bt in GMOs it a little bit

different. Those brilliant scientists at Monsanto actually activated the Bt and

then put it into the corn and whatever other crop that now has Bt in it. So it

is potentially dangerous to anything that consumes it.

So, EW, if you have any data that show that the Bt that organic gardeners use is

dangerous to anything other than lepidoptera larvae I would like to see it.

Lee

> One natural chemical that is widely use is *Bacillus thuringiensis, *commonly

call Bt. Look it up. I don't use it because it works really well on the bad

guys, it also is harmful to bees. I like bees.