Organic Gardening getting bigger

Mainstream gardeners and homeowners -- for decades, indiscriminately spraying lawns, shrubs and gardens with deadly poisons -- are demanding alternatives to chemical pest and weed controls.

 

 

Subject:   Organic Alternatives (Ladybugs, Too) Are Big---
Date:        Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:12:29 -0400
From:        Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To:     Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
          Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation 

Dear Mr. Helliker, I thought you might like to read an article from USA TODAY (August 18, 2000 Page 5D) entitled: Organic Alternatives (Ladybugs, Too) Are Big - By Shawn Sell

Hang on to your begonias: The 'burbs are going organic.

Mainstream gardeners and homeowners -- for decades, indiscriminately spraying lawns, shrubs and gardens with deadly poisons -- are demanding alternatives to chemical pest and weed controls. Recent pesticide bans, coupled with ongoing cautions about the effects on children, pets and the environment, have raised consciousness to a new level.

The result: Upscale consumers are insisting on change, and the switch seems to be more evident this summer as all things ''organic'' gain wider acceptance.

''There are many trends converging to make people better aware of the benefits of an organic lifestyle,'' says Maria Rodale, editor of Organic Gardening magazine and author of Maria Rodale's Organic Gardening (Rodale Press, $35). ''The growth of the organic food industry has made more quality food products available, just as more professional chefs are wonderfully promoting the use of organic foods.

''And let's not discount the impact of the baby boomers,'' she says. ''They have this inherent desire to change the world, and they're entering their gardening years. Their response to organics has been tremendous.'' ...

Rest of the rather sizable article at: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20000818/2563762s.htm
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Well Mr. Helliker, I was basically told yesterday that EPA may ban my book on unregistered alternatives entitled "The Best Control" - I hope you "regulators" try to take away my First Amendment Rights! I have told you and many other "regulators" verbally and in writing to come and arrest me - in fact, the inspector showed me downloaded pages of my letter "Come and arrest me" that are currently up on my website. I have not hidden, I am not hiding and I will not hide. I have invited you to hear me speak. You must eventually realize we are STILL living in a free society. You are supposed to protect the people not the POISON industry profits. The public wants alternatives. You and many other "regulators" obviously do not. At the conclusion of the EPA "investigation" I again asked only one question - "How do you define the word "alternative"? If you can not even define that word - you obviously will never find any "alternatives". I suggest you people start to pay attention to what the public wants before they realize who is stopping them from getting what they want and/or who has purposely POISONED them!

Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten

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