Is your club, civic group, company or non-profit organization interested in learning more about the SafeLawns natural
gardening and lawncare message? If so, you can engage our National Spokesperson, Paul Tukey, or any of our other regional
horticulture experts. Many of the nation's leading gardening communicators and landscape consultants are available to help
make America's homes, lawns and gardens a safer place for your families and the planet.
Americans love this kind of story http://www.cabinet.com/hollisbrooklinejournal/hollisnews/808634-308/lawn-mower-race-aims-to-cut-down.html out of New Hampshire about the local lawnmower races pitting the cops against the firefighters. There’s a lot to like, here. You read about a teenage girl aspiring to “take the trophy” from her father and about the “crowds of people” expected to gather together in a [...]
If you have some time on your hands, check out our conversation with host June Stoyer on The Organic View: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-organic-view-blog-talk/id384349742. We had a comprehensive discussion about the history of SafeLawns and the making of A Chemical Reaction in a segment titled “The American Lawn Care Obsession.”
And in our weekly appearance on NBC, we talk [...]
A SafeLawns follower from the St. Louis area asked us a question this morning that sent us scrambling to our veterinarian friends. It concerned ridding the spores of Giardia from lawns so that her new puppy is not reinfected.
First off, a quick definition: Giardaisis is an intestinal infection that can affect many mammals, but it’s [...]
Perhaps the greatest celebration of all things organic for the past three decades, the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine, plans to go all out this year to promote natural lawn care. Mark your calendar specifically for Saturday, Sept. 25, to attend three events presented by the Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association:
10 a.m. – [...]
Our artist, Corianda Dimes, is finalizing the logos for our Lawn Slogan Contest. Here are the close-to-final drafts. We welcome any comments before they head to the printer this week.
Although the state stopped far short of the outright bans of pesticides around schools in New York and Connecticut, legislators in Indiana are nonetheless putting some significant restrictions in place: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-pesticides-school,0,3402367.story
It’s been almost exactly three years since some impulsive research led me to David Hackenberg. I had just watched an advertisement for grub control for lawns and the punchline stated that “one application lasts 12 months.”
Compulsively suspect of chemical pesticides, I cringed when I thought of a substance that would persist in the soil for [...]
With synthetic chemical pesticides being linked in new studies this year from everything to ADHD in children to colony collapse disorder in bees, Good Morning America will focus a segment Wednesday on newer classes of pesticides that are derived from natural ingredients. Barring any unforeseen news event that takes precedence, I’ll be on the air [...]
News
Beware the Phrase "Organic Based"... As I’ve traveled around the nation to talk about our new nonprofit organization SafeLawns.org, I’ve sensed a tremendous amount of confusion about organic products. “What’s really organic, and what isn’t?” more.......
Do Lawn Chemicals Make Us Age Quickly? CHICAGO — Thanks to America’s most popular talk show host, Dr. Mehmet Oz is quickly becoming the nation’s go-to physician when it comes to diet and aging. more.....
Product Puts Beekeepers, Lawn Growers at Odds The onset of autumn always brings heightened advertising for grub control products for lawns. With the winter of 2007-2008 not far off, however, comes an urgent reminder from beekeepers about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which wiped out tens of thousands of hives of bees across North America last winter and spring. more.......
Florida County Bans Chemical Fertilizers SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. — Taking one of the boldest moves of any metropolitan area in the United States, officials in Sarasota County in Florida voted this week to ban business owners and residents from using chemical fertilizers during the rainy season. more.......
Good Morning, America If you caught my appearance on ABC on Friday morning, July 6, and are looking for more information about the equipment I showcased, or my book, you've come to the right place. more.......
Drought Alert: Keep Lawns Green by Going Organic
The median strips have gone to straw and the baseball diamonds have lost their shimmer of green. Weeds thrive where grass once flourished and topsoil blows away with the slightest breeze. The scene is the same everywhere across most of America these days with the nation gripped in one of the most severe early summer droughts in history. more.......
The Soil Test When we talk about the importance of soil tests on our SafeLawns.org tour across America, people seem to get it. You wouldn't take medication, other than an aspirin or Tylenol, that your doctor didn't prescribe, so why would you feed products to your lawn without a soil test? That point seems to hit home. more.......
Lawns and your Carbon Footprint Americans (and the rest of the world) are finally waking up to what may well be the largest environmental challenge humanity has ever faced: the fact that we have reached the carrying capacity of the planet to recycle our wastes. more.......
Lawns Always Need Enough Soil Among the many tenets of good gardening and lawn care that we've been preaching in our nationwide SafeLawns.org tour is the necessity and advantage of having enough soil depth. New research from the Texas Cooperative Extension Service, released April 17, shows just how important proper soil can be. more.......
Questions for Your Natural Lawn Contractor How do you tell if that ad in the local paper for organic lawn care is for real? One way to rank lawn care providers is by whether they comply with standards like the Organic Land Care Standards developed by the Northeast Organic Farmers Association in 2004. But outside the northeast, what can you do to make sure your provider is indeed providing care that keeps your kids and pets – and the environment – safe? You can ask them the questions that occurred to SafeLawns.org founder Paul Tukey when he first embraced organic methods. more.......
The Top 10 Benefits of Organic Lawn Care
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Safety for humans, animals, insects and the planet
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Better health, for humans, animals, the lawns and the planet
The SafeLawns Initiative:SafeLawns.org is mounting a
national campaign this month to push for environmentally friendly lawn care, built around Home and Garden TV host Paul Tukey's new
book, The Organic Lawn Care Manual. more.......
