Indoor herb garden: whether in the city, suburbs, or country, you can create a window garden and enjoy fresh herbs all year round.
With a sunny windowsill and the right choice of plants, you can create your own mini herb garden indoors and have a constant supply of fresh leaves to flavor your favorite dishes. Any herb grown indoors needs to be positioned in good natural light. Some herbs, such...

Acute pesticide poisoning among cut-flower farmers.
Introduction Much of the research done in the field of occupational health is focused on the service and manufacturing industries, giving very little data on agricultural hazards. The Philippine Department of Labor and Employment, a national agency, has reported that occupational injuries and illnesses were most prevalent...

Author retells tales of under-appreciated Quabbin area.
Byline: George Barnes ROYALSTON - Nearly 30 years ago, Allen Young began writing about local people and events as a reporter, focusing on the unique and interesting aspects of life in the North Quabbin region. The newspaper feature stories he wrote in the 1970s and...

Acute pesticide poisoning among cut-flower farmers.
Pesticide Profiles: Toxicity, Environmental Impact, and Fate Michael A. Kamrin (1997) This book contains specific information about 137 pesticides, as well as interpretative material and an extensive trade name index. Each pesticide profile gives regulatory information, toxicity assessments, environmental-fate data, physical properties, and acceptable-exposure-limit values....

Enjoy color in garden all seasons.
Byline: Paul Rogers COLUMN: ROOTS OF WISDOM Are you satisfied with the appearance of your landscape? Is there color in your yard from early spring until late autumn? Am I suggesting that there are plants that will remain in bloom from April until...

Into the forest: Allison Perrett discovers a model for land conservation in our own backyard.
In the far reaches of Western North Carolina, in a relatively remote and wild valley carved out by a tributary of the Little Tennessee River, Robin Suggs grows native medicinal plants. His business, MoonBranch Botanicals, supplies raw botanical ingredients valued for their medicinal qualities to medicine makers and herbal...

Petal pushers.
A rose may smell as sweet by any other name, but not too close or you may get a nose full of organophosphates (pesticides). If you always wanted to know where that gorgeous bouquet you sent to your mom on Mother's Day came from, or wondered how those millions...

Tree farming in paradise: an old industry has a new look in Hawaii, featuring exotics like rainbow eucalyptus.
Rows of hardwoods--teak, African and Honduras mahogany, pheasant wood, and rosewood--meander along the contours of Bari Green and Lou Russo's 16-plus acres of steep hillside below Mauna Kea on the Big Island's Hamakua Coast. The Pacific is azure blue in the distance, a steady trade wind rustles the leaves,...

Why mail matters.
It was with great interest that we read Steven Krieger's commentary, "Junk Mail Meets Democracy: How to Stop the Flow" (Our Planet, www.emag azine.com/view/?3436.). Kreiger tells readers that it takes "100 million trees" to produce the paper used for the nation's advertising mail. According to the EPA's...

Antioxidant activity high in tomato fractions.
The antioxidant properties of lycopene, a carotenoid found primarily in tomatoes, have raised interest in the tomato as a food with potential anticancer properties. Natural antioxidants from tomato extract have been shown to reduce blood pressure in some people. Scientists in New Zealand and colleagues elsewhere wanted...