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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.
Mother Nature rarely offers up a mystery any more intriguing than the phenomenon known as fairy ring. One can only imagine what our ancestors must have conjured up as the reason for giant circles that seem to appear from nowhere in the middle of stands of grass in the summer.
At a recent consulting job in [...]
The lawn and garden pesticide industry will soon have a new front man to claim its products are safe. Aaron Hobbs is slated to replace Allen James as the head of the propaganda organization known as The Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment effective tomorrow, Sept. 1.
Announced in a press release published today by [...]
Considered to be one of the “greenest places to live in America” by numerous publications, the city of Boulder appears poised to live up to its reputation with garden to lawn care.
“It’s exciting out there, it really is,” said nationally recognized organic turf expert Chip Osborne of Osborne Organics of Marblehead, Mass., after his [...]
Citing data that shows a 17 percent reduction in phosphorus runoff in a local river, a University of Michigan professor told SafeLawns.org that three years of studies indicate a ban on phosphorus in lawn fertilizers is working as intended.
Bans of phosphorus in lawn fertilizer have become hugely controversial across the United States in the past [...]
Pardon me for my ignorance and excitement, but today I’m newly enthralled with a word that I’m sure some of you have heard before: agnotology. Not yet recognized by my spell-check, agnotology is defined by Wikipedia as “the study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt.”
Now, one might ask at first blush: Why on earth would anyone [...]
Those of us who preach organic gardening and farming in religious tones almost always buck up against science, which has forever struggled to explain what we accept as innate understanding. In other words, the scientists usually denounce what they can’t prove beyond a shadow of a doubt.
That’s why the study out of the University [...]
An article today from an Indiana newspaper is worthy reading for anyone in any states where lakes and ponds are a factor. The article doesn’t deal specifically with fertilizer runoff from lawns, but it does specifically cite phosphorus as the major culprit in the death of a major lake: http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20100829/EDIT10/308299957/1021/EDIT
With ambient temperatures on the rise across the U.S. this season, almost everything in the plant world is early. Plants bloomed ahead of schedule, insect infestations ignored the calendar and, now, weed seeds that usually come at the end of the year are beginning to creep into lawns early.
That makes it time to trot [...]
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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.......
