From the Left Coast comes a story about a golf course that has somehow managed to thrive despite reducing the use of toxic fungicides. For Michigan, which is said to have one of the highest ratios of golf courses to people in the U.S., this might be instructive.
More to the point, San Francisco is showing that reducing the use of pesticides for cosmetic purposes can work, with health and ecological benefits.
It's something of a miracle that the PGA picked Harding for such a prestigious professional event, say greens experts, because city law forbids the use of the arsenal of chemical pesticides and fertilizers that keep most links around the country an unblemished green.
Yet, in a country where 17,000 golf courses use more toxic fungicides per acre than almost anyplace else, including farms, Harding is on its way to becoming an organic haven for golfers.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/30/MNGL4D0QAJ1.DTL
Posted by Dave at May 31, 2005 11:13 AM