Natural Lawn and Garden Resources
To learn more about Natural Lawn Care and Gardening with Nature check out these websites, doccuments and books
Natural Lawn Care
Organic Landscape Alliance www.organiclandscape.org, Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides www.pesticide.org. A Living Lawn… A Lawn for Living
www.livinglawn.org. City of Toronto www.toronto.ca/pesticides
Websites
Websites
Go for Green www.goforgreen.ca
Society for Organic Urban Land Care http://www.organiclandcare.org
American Community Gardening Associationwww.communitygarden.org
Carolinian Canada www.carolinian.org
Flower Gardening Made Easy www.flower-gardening-made-easy.com
Wildflower Farm Wildflower Farm
American Community Gardening Association www.communitygarden.org
My Green Garden www.mygreengarden.ca
Go For Green www.goforgreen.ca
WWF:Green Thumb Tips for Pesticide-free Gardening www.wwf.ca
Books
Chemical-Free Lawn, The – The Newest Varieties and Techniques to Grow Lush, Hardy Grass Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania, 1989
Rodale Organic Gardening Basics Volume 1: Lawns Rodale Press, United States, 2000
Handbook of Successful Ecological Lawn Care, Paul Sachs Edapos Press
Building a Healthy Lawn, Stuart Franklin Garden Way Publishing, 1988
Rodale’s Landscape Problem Solver – A Plant-By-Plant Guide, Jeff and Liz Ball Rodale Press
Start with the Soil by Grace Gershuny Rodale Press
Dead Daisies Make Me Crazy: Garden Solutions without Chemical Pollution by Loren Nancarrow. 2000
Great Garden Formulas: the Ultimate Book of Mix-it-Yourself Concoctions for Your Garden Pests by Elizabeth Miller. 2000
Weeds and What They Tell by Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer
Gardener’s Guide to Common Sense Pest Control by William Olkowski, Sheila Daar, Helga Olkowski
The Encyclopedia of Natural Insect _ Disease Control by Roger B. Yepsen, Jr.
Pesticides, Health and Environment
The following links are all useful sources of information on the health and environmental costs of garden chemicals as well as alternatives to pesticides.
Report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, May 2000www.parl.gc.ca/InfoComDoc/36/2/ENVI/Studies/Reports/envi01/04-toc-e.html
Pesticide Concentrations in the Don and Humber River Watersheds (1998 – 2000)
www.ene.gov.on.ca/envision/techdocs/4335e.htm
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment www.cape.ca
Canadian Institute of Child Health www.cich.ca/EnvironmentHealth.html
Canadian Cancer Society www.cancer.ca
Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides www.cap-quebec.com
Responsible Use
E X T O X N E T Extension Toxicology Network Pesticide Information Profiles Info on the toxicological effects of pesticides pmep.cce.cornell.edu
FPT Committee on Pest Management and Pesticides www.healthylawns.net/english/index%2De.html
Pesticide Management Regulatory Agency www.pmra-arla.gc.ca/english/consum/properuse-e.html
Naturally Hamilton offers a series of fact sheets that cover a variety of Pesticide-free lawn and garden care topics including:
White Grubs
Weeds
Grow a Healthy Lawn
Native Plants: Creating Low Mainteance Landscapes
Monthly Steps to a Healthy Lawn.pdf
Low Risk Pesticide Products _ Home Made Pest Control Recipes
Chinch Bugs
Ground Covers and Clover
European Crane Fly
