Tag Archive | "Organic Lawn Care"

Blog to be Limited This Week

Sunday, June 27, 2010

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Due to a severely broken wrist suffered in a fall, blog activity will be severely limited until further notice.

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On Our First Anniversary: Your Top 10 Posts

Friday, June 18, 2010

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It’s absolutely amazing to me that a year has passed since I rather randomly declared that I would post a daily blog on the SafeLawns.org web site. “Daily?” many asked, questioning my rationale and stamina. “Why not weekly?” True to the original goal, though, June 18 marks the one-year anniversary of the SafeLawns Daily Blog and, [...]

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Weeds & Wildness

Monday, June 14, 2010

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I happened upon this blog post by accident. Part book review and part general observation, it’s an interesting perspective from someone who clearly doesn’t usually spend much time thinking about lawn care: http://dearouterspace.blogspot.com/2010/06/weeds-and-wildness.html. I’ve read the book she’s reviewing, A Weed by Any Other Name, and also found it to be time well spent.

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Article: The Lawns They Are A Changing

Monday, June 14, 2010

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Here is an article from an on-line news source that offers a comprehensive look at the state of the organic lawn care revolution in the U.S.: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51805

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New York to Approve Organic Lawn Care Professionals

Thursday, June 10, 2010

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I need to look more into this — specifically what the criteria will be — but it’s intriguing nonetheless. New York state will apparently begin an approval process for organic lawn care professionals: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=939580&category=BUSINESS.

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Take Pause Before Rushing Out For Ant Control

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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With the unofficial arrival of summer across North America often comes the mad dash to the pesticide aisle of your local garden center for insect control, especially ant sprays and baits. Having spent four years producing a television show with Roger Swain for HGTV, I became well schooled in all the reasons NOT to kill ants. [...]

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The State of the Canadian (Pesticide) Union

Monday, May 31, 2010

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Amazingly dedicated folks in Canada keep tabs daily on the state of affairs regarding pesticides and fertilizers in Canada. They track news stories, letters to the editors and are, for all of us in the SafeLawns movement, an invaluable resource in our efforts to make our world safer from pesticides. This morning they sent along [...]

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You Want to Eradicate Moss? Really?

Thursday, May 13, 2010

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One of the tenets of our approach to lawn care is that “weeds” are messengers sent by Mother Nature to tell us something about the soil below. You can kill the messengers any number of ways — with chemicals, natural products, flaming, boiling water, or pulling them out — but you don’t really change the [...]

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Home Composting: Everyone Should be Doing It

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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I spoke to my alma mater’s alumni association last night about stewardship of the planet. The talk, which is a nice break for me from organic lawn care, is titled 10 Words: Essential Dialogue for Saving the Planet. We had a great time, including a stirring rendition of the University of Maine’s “Stein Song,” but [...]

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Huffington Post: Steingraber’s Take on Lawns

Monday, May 10, 2010

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Sandra Steingraber is one of my heroes in this world. A cancer survivor and scientist, she wrote a book several years ago, Living Downstream, that hastened my own journey toward outspoken advocacy. Answering the question I asked on this blog a few days ago — What Did You Do When You Knew? — the mother [...]

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