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Home Gardening

posted on May 25, 2021
Childhood Cancer Prevention
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Dear home gardeners, listen up!

Do you realize that awaiting you in your summer vegetable gardens, flower beds, and well-kept lawns there is an opportunity to prevent childhood cancer??

Before you go to your local nursery, Lowe’s, or Home Depot to purchase RoundUp or some other herbicide to kill the weeds growing in your lawn, we urge you to consider the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s declaration of glyphosate (the chemical found in RoundUp and many other herbicides on store shelves) as a probable carcinogen.

Since 1962, when Rachel Carson’s infamous Silent Spring came out documenting the dangerous consequences of pesticides on environmental and human health, herbicides have not only continued to damage humans and our environments, but they’ve been used in ever increasing quantities. Approximately 5.6 billion pounds of pesticides are sprayed around the globe each year according to an article in Reviews on Environmental Health.
Sow your seeds of resistance to this global issue in your own yard! Check out Beyond Pesticides Beyond Pesticide’s Organic Lawn Care 101 and Read Your Weeds resources to make your lawn and garden free of herbicides. Stay tuned for additional ideas and resources later this week. #Preventchildhoodcancer #mighty4mikey

P.S. This is Mikey’s mom, Patti Gustafson, showing off her homegrown produce (without herbicides, of course!).

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Bridget Gustafson is Michael's twin sister. She now serves as the Chair of the Junior Board of the Swifty Foundation. Her work for Swifty is incredibly important to her as it allows her to continue developing her relationship with Mikey and with the national pediatric cancer community that her family has been apart of since Michael's diagnosis when they were ten years old.

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