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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.

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More Discovery News - Products Help Gardeners Go Greener

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Discovery News - Greenest Grass Grows on the Mall

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Sprig.com - Meet an Expert - Green Lawn Guy

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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.......

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?” people ask. A press release on April 6 from the Organic Trade Association confirmed the uncertainty. 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
	1.	Safety for humans, animals, insects and the planet
	2.	Better health, for humans, animals, the lawns and the planet
	3.	Water Conservation and Preservation. more.......

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.......

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