On Easter Sunday of 2017, the five Perez children were hunting for Easter eggs in their backyard when they smelled something unusual. “Plasticky and rotten eggs,” their dad, Eric Perez, recalled. The ...

Hawaii and California banned or limited the pesticide. Gov. Jay Inslee is not considering a ban, a spokesperson said. A pesticide sprayed on most Christmas trees has been known for a decade to cause ...

Peeling an apple before eating it may be your best defense against pesticides. An apple a day … could be filling your body with pesticides. A new study suggests that washing fruit, a precautionary ...

In 2016, she and her husband Daanish moved into a fixer-upper lot outside Oregon City with dreams of a small organic egg and vegetable farm. They filled the property with bantam chickens, silkies, ...

Apple growers in the eastern U.S. have a despised enemy known as apple scab — a disease caused by a fungus that forms ugly brown or greenish-black pockmarks on the fruit's skin. A scabby apple is ...

Many homeowners enjoy growing their own fruit, but they have also learned that they require a lot of care to approach the quality of products obtained from a commercial orchard or grocery store.

Thanks to the Trump administration, farmers who raise Christmas trees are feeling a bit merrier this holiday season. Christmas tree growers, like many other agricultural producers, have benefited from ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 16, 2022) Putting up with moderate pest levels can attract and maintain predators and parasitoids that provide important biological control services throughout the ...

Our Test Kitchen’s trick research-backed as the most effective way to remove pesticides. Whether you scored your apples from a tree in your backyard, an orchard, a farmers market, or the supermarket, ...

An apple a day … could be filling your body with pesticides. A new study suggests that washing fruit, a precautionary measure taken by many consumers, is not enough to remove toxic chemicals and ...