The following was just posted by Rue of the Watertrough Children's Alliance.

A reminder to eat locally …. our farmers are our friends. Have a wonderful spring day,Rue

Farmers in California, the nation’s top agricultural state, are applying near-record levels of pesticides despite the rising popularity of organic produce and concerns about the health of farmworkers and rural schoolchildren.
The latest figures, released in April by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and covering 2016, show that 209 million pounds of pesticide active ingredients were used in agriculture. That was down 1.4 percent from the year before, but still the third-highest yearly total since the state began reporting the numbers in 1991. The record high of 215 million pounds came in 1998.

https://www.fairwarning.org/2018/05/pesticides/