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Pete Schubert

Pete Schubert

Retired project engineer (US Army Corps of Engineers / EPA) and NC naturalist serving on the board of the North Carolina Invasive Plant Council; guest on the Slay Invasives podcast.

Sep 15, 2026

9:26
So what are your thoughts on herbicides or your herbicide philosophy, Pete?
9:30
Well, it's funny because mine has evolved over time.
9:35
I was initially, no, I don't want to use chemicals.
9:37
I don't want to use herbicides.
9:38
And that's because most of what I knew was from conventional farming, which is farming transgenic crops that are that are gene edited to withstand being sprayed with glyphosate and not metabolizing it.
9:58
And so it's glyphosate used that way just gets into the environment.
10:03
There's so much is applied.

7 MINS LATER

16:42
Have you had any experience with that?

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