Every year the Environmental Working Group tests fruit and vegetables from grocery stores and comes up with their list of the most pesticide-contaminated foods.  This year's list is almost entirely food that I personally eat, so I am very glad that we are growing a lot of them in our home garden.  The spinach overwintered and came up on its own!  But for the foods that are on the list, which we don't grow, I plan to buy organic.  I would recommend that you do, too.  Only by voting with our dollars can we change the market.  Without further ado, the dirty dozen:

1. Apples (99% of apples tested were contaminated)
2. Strawberries (these are bad because it goes in the pores and you can't wash or soak it off)
3. Grapes (one grape tested positive for 15 different pesticides)
4. Celery
5. Peaches
6. Spinach
7. Bell Peppers
8. Nectarines
9. Cucumbers
10. Potatoes
11. Cherry Tomatoes
12. Hot Peppers (looks like they lumped a lot of kinds of peppers together)