Pesticide Horrors, and how a farmer fought and won.

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Those pesky pesticides

By Charlene Peters/ cpeters

Thursday, March 23, 2006

 

Fear of failure is the driving force behind resistance to change. On an

individual level, taking a risk can be scary, even if the results benefit your

health. Horticulturist Chip Osborne took a large-scale risk three years ago,

when he convinced the community of Marblehead to allow him to transform a

pesticide-laden athletic field into an organic, livable lawn to prevent

long-term health risks associated with agrochemicals.

 

Many stood back at arms length, waiting for his pesticide crusade to

fail.

Fortunately, Osborne's organic methods succeeded, and

he's become co-chairman of Marblehead's Living Lawn Project, a

seeing-is-believing organic lawn and garden demonstration site.

The success he found in his small community has begun to spread

across the state of Massachusetts and, most recently, nationwide.

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