How much do you know about the pesticide reduction work occurring across Greater Chicago? CGG Week's webinars, demonstrations and fun competitions cover the latest natural lawn care and sustainable landscaping progress. Events include: Saturday, June 1st - Celebrate Riverdale Park District’s commitment to safe and pesticide-free parks at the CGG Week Kickoff. Register at bit.ly/CGGriv19 […]
Stonyfield looks forward to helping Lisle Park District enhance the quality of fields at four parks of Connelly Memorial, Leask Lane, Abbeywoods Pond and Oak HIll by offering financial assistance and education for an organic maintenance program free from the use of harmful pesticides. Learn more about this program from Stonyfield and local partners and […]
What Lisle Park District is transitioning four parks to organic and we want to show how they will do it! We will cover the importance of soil biology, cultural practices and other natural lawn care concepts. Who Natural Lawn Care expert Chip Osborne of Osborne Organics will provide a three hour crash course covering organic park management. […]
Midwest Grows Green is turning 4 and Patagonia is hosting a celebration for them! For this event, Patagonia will open space at their Lincoln Park store to MGG and their partners to share past and current pesticide reduction projects. The event will start with a fair format from 5-6pm, where MGG partner organizations will table […]
Are you having trouble managing invasives and other weeds around shorelines, coastlines, and other aquatic natural areas? Midwest Grows Green’s Lawn and Land Forum has invited two shoreline and coastline management professionals to discuss weed management with limited or no glyphosate/herbicides for our “Plant Selection along Shore and Coastlines” Webinar on Thursday, September 24th at noon CST. Our […]
Ecological restoration often first considers competitive and hardy native plants to control invasives and other weeds. In this webinar, the Forum invites two ecological restoration professionals to share their plant selection strategies used along shore and coastal lines. Our two panelists will, also, cover how to establish native plants with as limited herbicides as possible. […]
