Should you buy an organic pumpkin for Halloween?

Organic pumpkins usually cost more than conventional, so if you’ve got a bunch of little spooks at your house, buying organic this Halloween could end up costing you a pretty penny. That’s the downside of organic pumpkins.

The upside of organic pumpkins include:

Support of organic agriculture and the ongoing good health of farmers and farmworkers.
Support for healthy rivers, soil, streams, rivers, air, and so on.
Support of other plants: “Two of the major herbicides used in pumpkins, clomazone and ethalfluralin, have either the potential to injure the crop being …read more