Jessica Walliser, an organic gardening advocate, makes the case for natural pest management in “Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden.” She favors an approach that lets nature take its course, ...

Learn how to get rid of sow bugs from a gardener who found them damaging her strawberries and used natural pest control methods to get them away from her fruits. As a child, I thought the common pill ...

In this episode of MOTHER EARTH NEWS and Friends, editor Hannah Kincaid talks with Howard Garrett about how to terminate and repel pests using methods that are less harmful than many mainstream ...

Folks seem to think that fruit trees are hard to grow and have too many bugs and diseases. Well, it’s just not true — unless you are listening to the wrong advice. Here’s a simple tutorial. Assuming ...

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Some days in my field of work, it feels like the message is brushed aside. No matter how often it gets said, people enjoy doing the opposite. Could you be one of these individuals? What if I told you ...