How are chemical fertilizers and pesticides harmful to soil?

Why Organic: Harmful Effects of Chemical Pesticides Why Organic: Harmful Effects of Chemical Pesticides Pesticide-based repellents and lawn treatments are becoming things of the past, as safer alternative products begin to surface. read more

With the advent of the so-called Green Revolution in the second half of the 20th century—when farmers began to use technological advances to boost yields—synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides became commonplace around the world not only on farms, but in backyard gardens and on front lawns as well. read more

Far from being life sustaining, our modern chemical-dependent farming methods: - Strip soil of nutrients - Destroy critical soil microbes - Contribute to desertification and global climate change, and - Saturate farmlands with toxic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers that then migrate into ground water, rivers, lakes and oceans. read more