Tag Archive | "Organic Lawn Care"
Common Ground: The Ocean, Lakes, Rivers & Streams
SafeLawns, Surfriders Share Common Goals of a Healthier Planet If there’s one truism we’ve found as we begin our seventh year at the SafeLawns Foundation, it’s to expect the unexpected. To that end, last week we enjoyed a lengthy conversation with Surfrider Foundation, a group that initially came together in 1984 to protest threats to their [...]
Continue reading...Major American Lawn & Landscape Conference Set for Chicago in March
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
One of the nation’s best educational opportunities for professionals and homeowners is coming to the Midwest in late March. Titled the “Lawn & Landscape Summit: Chicago 2012,” the event will bring together two leading golf course superintendents, along with a renowned arborist and several of the most progressive landscape products companies for two days of [...]
Continue reading...Green Lawns, No Synthetic Chemicals: Examples from the Midwest
Thursday, November 17, 2011
The SafeLawns fall tour of the Midwest unveiled numerous examples of landscape sustainability in recent days. Hosted by our sponsoring partners at Calcium Products/NatraTurf and Purple Cow Organics, we visited installations at state capitols, college campuses, golf courses, public gardens and private residences during our whirlwind tour. Here are just a few examples:
Continue reading...Giving Organics the Old College Try
Friday, October 21, 2011
Spurred by the success of pilot projects at Bowdoin College in Maine and Harvard University in Massachusetts, several other college campuses across the nation have turned aside chemicals on their malls and promenades in favor of a more natural approach. In today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, Virginia Smith chats with a groundskeeper who is delighted to have [...]
Continue reading...The Glenstone Project: Unveiling the Science of Organic Lawn Care, Step by Step
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
As reported here throughout the past few months, the SafeLawns Foundation and the Glenstone Foundation are partnering with the University of Maryland’s world-renowned turfgrass department on a long-term study to review the efficacy of organic lawn care. After months of planning, researchers broke ground in the last two weeks at test plots, both at the [...]
Continue reading...The Lawn Phosphorus Firestorm: The Flames Are Warming
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
New Laws Wrongfully Restrict Organic Fertilizers The coming year is shaping up as a major battleground and your lawn may be caught in the crosshairs of a fight that stretches from Maine to Washington state. The issue is phosphorus, denoted by the letter P and the number 15 on the Periodic Table of Elements that hung in [...]
Continue reading...Book Excerpt: RILE . . . The Thinking Man’s Approach to Weed Control
Monday, October 3, 2011
Out on the road last week after an extended period at home or in my office, I was reminded that not EVERYONE understands the principles of organic lawn care. It’s often easy to get comfortable in one’s cocoon and it’s useful to be reminded that, many times, new ideas are worth repeating. So I thought I’d [...]
Continue reading...Landscape Sustainability: Examples in Three States
Friday, September 30, 2011
I just returned fully energized this evening from a whirlwind tour of three Mid-Atlantic states. The topics at each stop were landscape sustainability and safety and the examples, at dozens of locations, were stunning. Wednesday evening began with an overview of the Delaware Center for Horticulture with Lenny Wilson, Assistant Director of Horticulture and Facilities at [...]
Continue reading...Natural Lawn Care: A Thorough Review
Monday, September 19, 2011
This article, published last Friday in Pittsburgh, offers a fairly thorough review of natural lawn care, including links to many excellent products: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/lifestyles/homegarden/s_757182.html
Continue reading...Happy Anniversary to LawnReform.org
Thursday, September 15, 2011
The date snuck up on me, but before it creeps away too far, I wanted to send along a shout out to LawnReform.org, the coalition of national garden writers dedicated to toxic pesticide reduction and resource management on the lawn. The two-year anniversary of the first post is this week. The group has stuck to [...]
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