Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL

Why the "White Fly" is the  LATEST HOT Gardening TOPIC  in the Tropics?Taking a pre-requisit gardening course of action prior to a gardenning course  , might be the right thing  to start with..
 
Gardening is an experiential thing.Lot of garden enthusiasts who wish to garden in the tropics revert to the internet,books,magazines and indoor classes that ripe with reading THEORY materials.For your eyes only Gardening is a HANDS ON course of ACTION:First learn to immerse your BODY hands in the dirt prior to getting occupy  your MIND eyes learning process .
Comes the topic of why the White Fly is the old-new menace of the "garden" terrace?
South Florida has been struggling with the white fly challenge for the last ten years.Some refer to the Wf as an imported garden predator.Some chose to unleash chemical warfare by using synthetic pesticides especially when the white fly endemic becomes systemic.For those who look for alternative solutions other than the chemical killing pest control,hope is on the horizon.Introducing NEEM TREE .
 
Now for the avid gardener, education and experience are of othe essence  upon seeking selective answers for the garden challenges.
 
1-Horticulural Decisions based on Education:As a certified Florida Master Gardener I learned to value research and consulting educated horticulturist and farmers .It pays to search and research.Seeking is one of the main pillars when it comes to Native American cultures.I remeber a wise Native American Lacota Chief once teaching me about two primal creations:1-Life 2-Seeking.So here I go seeking to learn from a research done by  University of Florida listing two Plant based BOTANICAL  solutions ,among other chemical pesicides.Because I chose the Organic Way as a path for urban farming  ,I select and emphasise using the following as an educated desicion for combatting the white fly endemic in S.Florida among other environmentally fiendly ,non chemical solutions:NEEM oil and Pyrethrine .Both are NATURAL and  non chemical Botancial plant based  Pesticides used to combat the white fly and its cousin the spiralling  white   fly.Source : http://trec.ifas.ufl.edu/mannion/pdfs/Rugose%20spiraling%20whitefly.pdf
 
2-Horticultural Decisions based on Experience:From my personal experience of more than twenty years of hands on urban farming in S.Florida, I have learned to use NEEM as a solution to myriad garden challenges in the S.Florida garden.My experience of growing ,harvesting NEEM TREES  using Neem oil have convinced me that there are alternative solutions to combat the white fly chief among them is PLANTING several NEEM trees in our yards as a preventive approach to repell and combat garden predators like the WHITE FLY for example,without inflicting colateral damage on humans,the  environment,animals or even plants themselves that are attacked by pests and garden predators..Why Neem works ? Here is an ancient answer from INDIA the Source  of Ayeurvedic Culture .Here is a glimpse of experiential data that originates in the ancient  Sanskrit Indian Culture that states the Value of the NEEM tree.It is used as a PLANTand EARTH friendly  fungicide, pesticide, herbicide,and whatever you as an Ayeurvedic disciple  in  ancient SANSKRIT   decide to beleive in a human BODY-MIND-SPTIRIT "remedycide" .The time has come when the remedy that is used on  EARTH - PLANT -ANIMAL-HUMAN forms of life DOES NO KILL or HARM the  Forms of Intelligent  life whatever their manifestations be .Neem oil is a BALSSAM that  HELPS and NEVER HURTS.Do NO Harm is the OATH of HIPPOCRETES the father of Medicine that Doctors pledge.I hope Farmers heed and follow the Hippocretes Oath as well  to do no harm to Earth and Plants by refraining from using Chemical Pesticides that  KILL! Source:
sanskritdocuments.org/articles/TheNeemtree.doc
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If you need garden help or consultation on how to combat the white fly using alternatives to chemical pesticides or wish to attend our organic gardening classes ,please email us at:guerreroantonio16-AT-gmail.com-DOT-Watch us on YOU TUBE:Tony Dagher urban gardener.More info about our classes :localharvest.org/farms/M20618 

The Green Energy and Solar annual Conference this year was my first baby step to join hands with the larger Green community .It was organized by the Central Chamber .A chamber of commerce that stretches to include more than 100 cities from East Central   to West Coast Florida.

Itwas a great experience mixing with officials from many cities and senators and representatives and business men and community leaders all together joining efforts to communicate at the podium,exhibit at the expo and congregate together around lunch tables and have open discussions how to make our community GREENER.

Comes the Greener World famous Missy Strauss one of the anchors at the Greener World Radio and an invitation to have my first radio show interview.

I was so impalled how working together and joining hands makes our community GREENER .More I was so grateful that there are GREEN Media that cares to hear and transmit  the voice of Urban Farmers to the community.Here is the interview broadcasted on June 6...Thank you Missy.Thank you Derek,David and all the rest of OGWRadio team for being the GREEN voice of our community..

http://www.ogwradio.com/shows.html