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Getting Off Toxic Pesticides with Ron Whitehurst – Epi-3279

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The Survival Podcast

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

A specialist in biological pest control, Ron Whitehurst advises farmers and gardeners on growing food and herbs in harmony with nature. After earning a BA in Biology at Indiana University, he moved to California and got a PCA license. Over Continue reading →

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0:00.0

There's a better way to do this, let me show you a better way.

0:15.0

And we are live one of those episode 32, 79 of the survival podcast.

0:23.9

I will have Ron Whitehurst coming on in just a moment.

0:26.7

If you like that name sounds familiar.

0:28.5

If you've been around a while, you may have heard from him before.

0:31.1

I had him on the show a couple of three years ago, something like that.

0:34.4

Really interesting guy.

0:35.4

We're going to talk about biological methods of pest control and getting off the toxic

0:40.5

pesticide cocktail.

0:43.1

And as I always say, it's kind of a poison pill that wants you to go anywhere with it.

0:48.6

You go with the pesticide, you end up with the herbicide, you go herbicide, you end

0:53.4

up with the pesticides, it's the side cocktail.

0:57.2

And we don't want that.

0:58.8

And so we're going to be talking to Ron just in a minute about the work he does there,

1:03.9

how he helps people get off that biosecide cocktail.

1:07.9

And the work that he's been doing to change things for the better, even with conventional

1:12.2

ag to try to explain to these people, the damage they're doing is not necessary in order

1:17.4

to reap a good profit and a good yield of the crop.

1:20.6

We'll have Ron on in just a minute.

1:22.4

Before we do, let's go ahead and hear from our two sponsors of the day.

1:26.4

Number one today, John Pugliano with the Well Steading Podcast.

1:30.8

I met John Pugliano back in 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah at a prepper convention.

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