The Rural Voice, 2003-09, Page 50;•� PEST CONTROL
• Cockroaches • Ant • Spider • Wasp • Flea • Pest Trapping Products
Cluster Fly Control
Bugs Find Us Hard to Resist
102550 Grey Rd. 18, RR 4, Owen Sound N4K 5N6
Tom & Karen Merner • Tel (519) 371-9499 or 1-800-292-3379 • e-mail: bugs@on.aibn.com
HELP FOR ONTARIO FARMERS IN CRISIS
•
Queen's Bush Rural Ministries
Provides - a free confidential service
to listen and offer a network
of helpful contacts.
can Collect 1-519-369-6774
Westario Power Service Inc.
• Private Pole Line Construction
• Street Light Design & Installation
• Tree Trimming Services
• Commercial, Residential & Farm
res • Free Estimates
Mir • 24 HR. Emergency
Westario Power Services Inc.
1-866-978-2746
1-519-396-3485
ext. 232
www.westario.com
Over 75 Years of Experience
46 THE RURAL VOICE
Shawna Sangster tends a Sea
Buckthorn plant which holds
promise as a future crop.
Science spent part of her summer at
the farm, looking for the best way to
effectively control weeds in the Sea
Buckthorn plants using newspaper
and straw instead of chemicals.
Wynnyk and Manolis' other focus
this year was oregano, which is anti-
viral, anti -fungal, and anti -bacterial.
Oregano' oil is well known in
the Mediterranean world for
its anti -microbial and anti-
fungal activity. Its use goes back to
classical times when it was used to
slow down food spoilage.
Oregano oil is useful because of
the major active constituents: thymol
and carvacrol. The oil can be used to
treat athlete's foot, peridontal
disease, insect bites, boils, and
halitosis. It also has all the properties
of tea tree oil, a plant that can only be
grown in Australia and produces a
$1 -billion -a -year industry.
Wynnyk laughs at the ads she sees
for other companies' oregano oil,
saying many of them claim the
oregano used in the oil was
"handpicked from the mountains in
Greece."
"Oregano is a perrenial and to
hand pick it would mean that the root
would also get ripped out, which
would not be very cost-effective,"
she said. The correct way to harvest
oregano is to cut it with scissors.
Wynnyk explains that The
Healing Arc is very heavy on the
research end of things, which is
funded by the National Research
Council and Agriculture Canada.
"Only through research will you