Transitioning Falmouth to Organic Land Care

Join us for a Presentation on Transitioning Falmouth to Organic Land Care

MAY 11, 20117:00 – 8:30PM

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 840 Sandwich Road, East Falmouth

      Public health, children’s healthy development, storm-water runoff into our estuaries, and protection of the Cape’s sole source water supplies are all reasons why we should begin to reduce our use of synthetic and chemical products to grow our lawns and gardens.  

     Across Massachusetts and the nation communities are changing the way they manage their lawns and children’s athletic fields from a chemically-intensive approach to organic methods.  In this public forum you will hear from nationally-recognized natural turf expert Chip Osborne on his successes across the country and the simple steps we can take to go organic.

     With sound information about pesticide impacts and the methods for transitioning to organic, Falmouth can make informed decisions about how we choose to take care of our properties and town-owned land.

Who should attend?  Falmouth citizens, town-officials, land care professionals.

What you will learn about:

¨     Pesticide Impacts on Public Health and the Environment

¨     Simple Steps to Organic Lawn Care and National Successes

¨     A model Municipal Organic Land Care Policy Model

¨     The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship’s Buildings and Grounds Efforts

Chip Osborne is a professional horticulturist with thirty-five years of experience and founder of Osborne Organics, a company that provides natural turf consulting service.  As a ten-year elected member of the Marblehead’s Recreation and Park Commission, he developed an organic management program for parks and athletic fields in 2001. This was in response to a Board of Health mandate that the town eliminate the use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.

Sponsored by: GreenCAPE,

Falmouth Climate Action Team (FCAT) and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Falmouth