Finding Pesticide-Free Wheat Straw
Q: Do you have any resources for pesticide-free wheat straw near Atlanta?
A: Just like you can’t know that the food you buy at the organic grocery is truly organic unless you know everyone down the line to the farm from which it came, you can’t know that your straw is pesticide free unless you know everyone in the chain of production all the way back to the farm.
You may choose to work with a person due to their good reputation, but every step of production is as important as the last, much like the links of a chain. If you have the time and the storage area, you could conduct a bioassay. Put a couple of bean or tomato seedlings in a paper cup that has been filled with a mixture of your chopped straw and potting soil. If these plants grow weirdly within a couple of weeks, that straw should not be used near garden plants.
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