Photo: assorted pumpkins from Tree Hugging Family
It’s that time of year again! Pumpkins galore! Those grown organically might be a bit more expensive than conventional, but here’s the upside (from “Should you buy an organic pumpkin for Halloween?”):
- “Support [for] organic agriculture and the ongoing good health of farmers and farm workers.
- Support for healthy rivers, soil, streams, rivers, air, [people and animals.]
- Support of other plants: “Two of the major herbicides used in pumpkins, clomazone and ethalfluralin, have either the potential to injure the crop being grown or cause severe injury to non-target plants.”
Who would WANT to eat the toxic herbicides used on conventional pumpkins? Give me organic any day, even on Halloween! AND no Halloween is complete without some singing PUMPKINS. Check out Crumpkin’s Pumpkins’ Pumpkin Song.
