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Pesticide-Free Cambridge - Public questions at council meetings

Record of our public questions (and answers where received) to Cambridge City Council committee meetings, 2020-2022 Public Question for...

Pesticide-Free Cambridge Newsletter#1: May/June 2023

6 June 2023 - Here's a quick summary of what we've been up to so far this spring / summer. 1. City Council Herbicide Reduction Plan (HRP)...

2022-23: PFC / Local Authority meetings & correspondence

On this page we will upload a rolling record of meetings and written correspondence with Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire City...

PFC/More Than Weeds - pavement plants event in Arbury

On Saturday 25 June, Pesticide-Free Cambridge, together with More Than Weeds, celebrated Cambridge’s pavement plants. Often dismissed as...

Happy Bee Streets, pesticide-free adoption scheme

Happy Bee Street signs appearing across Cambridge to indicate those community-adopted streets now being managed without the use of toxic...

Herbicide spraying again during school commute

Herbicide spraying in Cambridge at 8.17 am this morning, in the middle of the busiest school commute time, despite commitments...

Pesticide-free adoption of 'The Snicket', Cambridge

Pesticide-Free Cambridge member & local resident has been involved with the community-adoption of this Cambridge alleyway to save it from...

Freedom of Information request & response, 4/6/21: Cambridge City Council policy on herbicide use

Many thanks to the fellow campaigner who submitted the following Freedom of Information request about the City Council's policy on...

On the 114th anniversary of Rachel Carson's birthday, positive action is long overdue

What more twisted image could there be than graves sprayed to death with herbicides? In the name of ‘tidying up', we are poisoning the...

Herbicide spraying on verges in Newnham, Cambridge

Today we're focusing on recent glyphosate herbicide spraying in the #Newnham area, one of the most beautiful parts of #Cambridge, close...

Herbicide spraying season has began in Cambridge

Prominent yellow strips like these ones on Perne/Mowbray road are appearing all over #Cambridge. Such signs of #glyphosate-based...

PFC Petition launched, 13 Jan 2021

PFC launched our petition to City Council to Commit to phasing out all synthetic, non-agricultural pesticides - including both herbicides...