When most people hear the word “asbestos,” they think about a material that used to be a hazard but is now banned. Unfortunately, this is only half true. While many asbestos products were banned by the Consumer Product Safety Commission in the late 1970’s, many products containing low levels of asbestos still exist on the [...]

If you want to use organic fertilizer, some of your best choices are alfalfa meal, seaweed meal, and soybean meal. Alfalfa meal is a good alternative to blood meal and is a slow-acting fertilizer. It has a lot of carbohydrates as well as proteins and it encourages the action of soil microbes. The carbon to [...]