In Extension, we do a lot of work with pesticides and fertilizers, however, most of the information is targeted for large-scale farmers with pesticide licenses that require recertification every ...

Homeowners use up 10 times more pesticide per acre than farmers do. But we can change what we do in our own yards. By Margaret Renkl Contributing Opinion Writer NASHVILLE — One day last fall ...

Here are some helpful lawn care tips to help deter them. Armyworms are caterpillars that can infest your yard and eat your grass. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy.

Pesticides used for purely cosmetic lawn care pose significant risks to public health and the environment. Numerous studies highlight the dangers these chemicals present, particularly to children ...

A proposal to severely limit homeowner use of chemical pesticides on lawns and gardens got the thumbs down from a city committee yesterday, setting the stage for a tough fight when council meets ...

Shortly after Lydia Chambers had her first child, in 1995, her family moved to a new home in Ohio. “It was this neighborhood with perfect lawns,” recalls Chambers, now 60. In her previous home ...

Some argue whether weed killers are poisonous to kids who roll in the grass or dogs that sniff the lawn, but Ketch Ryan considers the question silly. In her view, there's no reason to take the ...

A pesticide is anything that could kill, repel, eradicate, or deter a certain pest. * Make sure pesticides are stored in locked cabinets, preferably metal, and out of reach of children. * Store ...

"I had 800 lawn-care clients and was spraying pesticides on probably 750 of those lawns. And I was making a lot of money doing it. We were grossing well in excess of a million dollars a year, ...

But in the case of lawn pesticides, we have no outside entity to blame; we are poisoning ourselves — and our children, our neighbors, our pets, our water and our birds.