Do You Know How Many Thousand Chemicals are Used in the Australian Food Industry?
More than 7200 “registered” pesticides, fungicides and herbicides used in the food production industry.
I wonder how many are “unregistered”?
If you are like me and would love to buy organic products all the time, but budget is making it tough, here is a list of fruit and vegetables you should prioritise to buy organic due to the impact of the pesticides, fertilisers and growth hormones that are used on them.
The “Dirty dozen + 1:
1. Apples
2. Celery
3. Cherry tomatoes
4. Cucumbers
5. Grapes
6. Carrots
7. Potatoes
8. Nectarines
9. Peaches
10. Spinach/Kale/Chard
11. Strawberries
12. Brocolli
13. Capsicum
Since moving down I have started our own vege patch which i am so proud of – considering in the city I couldn’t even grow herbs.
It is amazing how easy it is to grow some veges with a little bit of TLC and a lot of netting to stop the butterflies eating my broccoli or laying their caterpillars aargh.
It is amazing how easy it is to grow some veges with a little bit of TLC and a lot of netting to stop the butterflies eating my broccoli or laying their caterpillars aargh.
At the moment I am growing broccoli, kale, spinach, chard, cauliflower, tomatoes (not to successfully), leeks, beetroots and loads of herbs. Plus our lemon and mandarin trees.
I am loving going out daily with my daughter and getting her to help water the vegetables and putting in a bucket what we will eat that night.If you have some space in your garden or on your balcony try a little organic garden.
Here are a few snaps from our garden – Our lemon tree, mandarin tree and my little tomatoes.
I am loving going out daily with my daughter and getting her to help water the vegetables and putting in a bucket what we will eat that night.If you have some space in your garden or on your balcony try a little organic garden.
Here are a few snaps from our garden – Our lemon tree, mandarin tree and my little tomatoes.
