This is a 2019 update of an our article demonstrating simple soil remediation strategies and techniques after heavy applications of weed killer (glyphosate) in a residential backyard. Growing Health Food - but wait... after moving in to a house in 2016, I soon realised that the entire garden bed had been sprayed with weed killer. Everything was dead and a quick call to the real estate agent and a confirmation chat with their handy man revealed that indeed Roundup (Glyphosate) was heavily sprayed so as to avoid manual weed pulling. Here is the unfolding of the story in pictures...

Pesticides kill. That’s why we created them. Little combat chemical molecules that wage war on plants, worms, insects, rats or bugs. How is increasing human exposure to pesticides affecting health (especially children and future generations)? Are current models of pesticide use and production conducive for sustained food production? Is the all-important rich biodiversity of soil microbial life being decimated? Are regulations that are designed to protect us from harmful toxic chemical exposures adequate? Are current toxicology risk assessment models out of date in the current climate of multiple chemical exposures? Most importantly – what can we do as individuals and a community.

This article provides a link to a list of Pesticides used in Australia. We published this list in 2015. We explore human and environmental health aspects of each pesticide in the list. We provide this list to add gravity to the notion that we are indeed over expos