You can buy organic fertilizer and certified organic seeds and organic veggies, but how about ornamental plants? That’s the next step as consumers demand their ornamentals be grown in an environmentally-conscious manner, writes Amy Stewart for the San Francisco Chronicle.
But there are gunnera-sized obstacles for nurseries and growers. The process to become certified is expensive and many in the industry don’t know about it, think about it, or believe it can be done economically. Read about it here.
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