Residents, businesses adopt parks to avoid pesticide use

Residents, businesses adopt parks to avoid pesticide use
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"Volunteers commit to working 4 times a year, pulling weeds and other tasks.  Residents and employees of local businesses have adopted six Ashland parks plus Lithia Park's Japanese Garden as part of an expanding effort to keep the city's park system largely free of chemical pesticides."