Asked March 27, 2024, 8:35 PM EDT
Hello!
Every Spring & Summer, I really look forward to picking local strawberries and blueberries. Last year I noticed that the blueberries were slick with something sort of oily that looked like it had been sprayed on... and I saw a truck closeby that looked like it could have been the sprayer. And at another place, I saw strawberry plants that I had picked from one week, and the next week I drove by and saw all the plants were suddenly brown and dried up. I started wondering what all these plants might be sprayed with. Pesticides? herbicides? fungicides? I understand it's almost impossible to do organic growing all the time, unfortunately.. but I just want to know what I'm consuming. I could ask the people working there but sometimes they are young kids or it's possible the people wouldn't know (or they wouldn't tell the truth..?) Is there a standard practice that local growers use...? Thanks!
Wicomico County Maryland