Organic Lawn Care for a Healthy Yard and Family at Kiwanis This Saturday

Fall is the perfect time of year to fertilize, weed, or renovate your lawn. If you are seeking organic alternatives to conventional lawn care techniques, join Charles (“Chip”) Osborne, a professional horticulturalist with 35 years’ experience in the green industry, and Dr. Jerry Silbert, a Board certified physician in clinical and anatomic pathology, at Weston Kiwanis this Saturday, September 15, at Norfield Parish Hall at 8:30am. Breakfast will be served and members of the public are welcome.

Mr. Osborne will present his nationally recognized program, "Simple Steps to Organic Lawn Care."  The program offers a detailed approach to natural lawn care that homeowners can implement in their own yards. Dr. Silbert will compliment Mr. Osborne’s presentation with information on how pesticides effect our families, pets, ground water and the environment overall.

Mr. Osborne founded Osborne Organics in 2007, a company that provides natural turf consulting services to business, municipal, and institutional clients.  A major focus of the business is providing education in the area of natural turf management. Mr. Osborne works with Grassroots Environmental Education in the Grassroots Healthy Lawn Program (GHLP).  The turf education as a part of GHLP was a collaboration between Grassroots Environmental Education, the County of Westchester New York, the New York State Turf and Landscape Association and Mr. Osborne. He is also a turf instructor for NOFA (Northeast Organic Farming Association) in natural methods, specializing in municipal turf.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of Beyond Pesticides in Washington, DC, and he has been recognized by the Toxic Use Reduction Institute at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, the Governor’s Office on Environmental Affairs, and the Toxics Action Center of Massachusetts.

Dr. Silbert is Executive Director of the Watershed Partnership Inc, a nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to fostering safe, healthy, livable communities and sustaining healthy watershed environments in Connecticut. Dr. Silbert is a former faculty member of the Yale University Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, former Chief of Clinical Laboratories at the West Haven VA Hospital, past Vice Chairman of the Guilford Inland Wetlands Commission, a former Chairman of Guilford’s Conservation Commission, and a member of the Northeast Organic Farming Association and the Coalition for a Safe and Healthy Connecticut.  In 2012 He received the Dragonfly Award from the national organization Beyond Pesticides for vision and leadership advancing knowledge and action to protect health and the environment.

The Kiwanis Club of Weston, an organization dedicated to community service, sponsors a variety of programs and events to raise funds for local organizations whose activities benefit the community at large. Its members work to support worthy causes in the community and surrounding areas through a combination of community service, philanthropy, and assistance to youth and citizens of all ages. The club's membership is open to all men and women residing or working in the area.  For more information, please visit our web site <www.westonkiwanis.org>.