Field Notes

Photograph of a hand holding a small plain cylindrical tube up to window light and turning it. The tube is completely blank, with no label or printing of any kind. A shelf of potted plants sits out of focus behind.

Beneficials Aren't OMRI Listed. That's The Point.

— Karen Horn
Tagged: Beginner Beneficial Nematodes Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Organic Growing Pest Control Predatory Mites

Go looking for an OMRI seal on a tube of predatory mites and you will not find one — on ours or on anybody's. The usual explanation is that you cannot certify something alive, and that explanation is wrong. Releasing beneficials is a practice rather than an input, and a practice has nothing in it for anyone to review.

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