How to Get Your Lawn & Garden Off Drugs: A Basic Guide to Pesticide-Free Gardening in North America

by Carole Rubin

Book Overview

Chemical pesticides were first formulated during the Second World War as agents of chemical warfare. Since then, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and other toxic agents have been developed for use in agriculture and home gardening to kill unwanted weeds, insects and diseases. Today we are looking for ways to clean these agrichemicals from our water, fisheries, wildlife species, soils - and our bodies. How to Get Your Lawn and Garden Off Drugs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550173200
• ISBN13: 9781550173208
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"