DUNCAN, Okla. (KSWO) – Think Ability released 12,000 ladybugs this afternoon in Duncan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Think Ability\u2019s Garden Manager says this is their fourth year doing the release, and it\u2019s always a lot of fun, but with a purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She says good soil, water, and light are just a few of the necessities for a healthy garden, but bugs also play a vital role in growing all the vegetables you\u2019ve come to love and ladybugs work as a natural pesticide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s really important that we use natural pesticides, rather than spraying chemicals. Anything, that we can do to make our food more healthier,\u201d Shiela Decarlo, Garden Coordinator at Think Ability, said. \u201cWhen we eat, it is better for us, you know, so we\u2019re taking a product because we\u2019re growing a lot of different families here. There\u2019s 44 different garden beds in our community garden. So there\u2019s 44 different families here that\u2019s been represented so instead of spraying Sevendust or something on there to kill this problem that we\u2019re going to have with these white flies and these aphids, we have now used a natural pesticide\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Decarlo says Think Ability places people who have intellectual disabilities in job situations. she says they have several partnerships throughout Duncan with quite a few people employed in the area through Think Ability. For more information about the garden or the organization visit thinkabilityfirst.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Copyright 2023 KSWO. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DUNCAN, Okla. (KSWO) – Think Ability released 12,000 ladybugs this afternoon in Duncan. Think Ability\u2019s Garden Manager says this is their fourth year doing the release, and it\u2019s always a lot of fun, but with a purpose. She says good soil, water, and light are just a few of the necessities for a healthy garden, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thinkabilityfirst.pcwizard-ok.com\/website_dff429b9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thinkabilityfirst.pcwizard-ok.com\/website_dff429b9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thinkabilityfirst.pcwizard-ok.com\/website_dff429b9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thinkabilityfirst.pcwizard-ok.com\/website_dff429b9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thinkabilityfirst.pcwizard-ok.com\/website_dff429b9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thinkabilityfirst.pcwizard-ok.com\/website_dff429b9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thinkabilityfirst.pcwizard-ok.com\/website_dff429b9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions\/2353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thinkabilityfirst.pcwizard-ok.com\/website_dff429b9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.thinkabilityfirst.pcwizard-ok.com\/website_dff429b9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thinkabilityfirst.pcwizard-ok.com\/website_dff429b9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.thinkabilityfirst.pcwizard-ok.com\/website_dff429b9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}