Growing Home's downstate training farm is finding out how little you can do when your neighbor's herbicide burns down your organic crops.
by Mike Sula
At first, when Stephanie Douglass saw the orange spots covering plants and trees all over the ten-acre organic farm she manages, she thought it might be some sort of fungus or bacterial infection. The spotting on the leaves was indiscriminate, attacking everything from tomatoes to peppers to cucumbers to basil to sunchokes to spinach.…[ Read more ]