The top 12 produce with the highest pesticide content are often called   “The Dirty Dozen” for obvious reasons. This information will help you in deciding where you may want to make the cut-off. Bear in mind that there are many fruits and vegetables that are not on this list, this is meant to get you thinking.

Pesticides on Popular Produce: Peaches – 100Strawberries – 89Apples – 88Spinach – 85 Nectarines – 85 Celery - 83 Pears – 80 Cherries – 76Potatoes – 67 Sweet Bell Peppers – 66 Raspberries – 66 Grapes – Imported  – 64

 

How much oxygen did your furniture produce today? Yeah, this is not your typical piece of furniture.

Add some alive furniture to your lawn or garden with these neat looking environmental chair and couch.

Simply fill the frame with soil, spread grass seeds evenly over the dirt, press them in and water slightly. Watch your furniture grow within 10 days. Once the grass has grown, trim it and you have a cool chair and sofa that blends with your lawn!

A fun project for kids to build and maintain their own garden furniture during the summer.

Via: stlloftstyle

Imagine wall art that was eco-friendly, added Mother Nature to your living room and was a constantly changing spectacle, and you will come close to envisioning something like the creative Living Wall Planters.

At $169, they are relatively good priced, especially since they are coupled with the entertainment and novelty value.

It is a very good idea, but as with most pioneering inventors, the first concept is by no means the best one. The Living Wall Planters gets full-marks for the idea, but the execution lacks the necessary sleek sophistication to make it popular and successful inside the home.

The cedar wood frame is packed with a metallic grid of pockets for the soil and plant roots to sit in, which allows for the plants to sit upright on the wall. Hidden from view is a basic watering and reservoir system that slowly feeds the plants and ensures there are no leakages (on your stylish wall-coverings or furniture).

Once the makers address the ‘look what I built in my backyard’ appearance and inject a little more aesthetic appeal to their design, they will have created a whole new trend in wall art and household gardening. Until that day comes, it’ll be best not to remove any existing works of art from the walls in your home, and instead, maybe look to use the Living Wall Planter to decorate the exterior walls of your living space.

Source: gardeners Via: thegreenhead

"We tend to think that water doesn't cost anything so we don't have to protect it," says Steve Maxwell, managing director at TechKnowledgey Strategic Group, a water industry management consulting firm. "The truth is that the planet has a fixed amount of water, while the population and industry continue to explode." As that fixed resource grows scarce, the need for conservation measures increases.One fruitful area is irrigation, says Maxwell, who points to: • Water reuse and reclamation programs for city parks and golf courses • Smart irrigation systems, whose automation increases efficiency • Consulting firms that help organizations implement and monitor efficient lawn-care technologies

Peat is still used extensively around the world in the garden and as a fuel. Peat moss is also a gardener's favourite, but our peat and peat moss consumption is wreaking havoc on wetlands where these materials form. Use an alternative like coconut coir: green tips