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The
URI Healthy Landscapes Program is a collaborative effort
with URI Cooperative Extension Programs and the Town of
North Kingstown, Rhode Island that began in September
2002. Our
Project goal is to generate and deliver an Extension education
program aimed at pollution prevention
best management practices (BMPs) in rural, residential landscapes. Click
here for more information about the URI Healthy Landscapes
education program.
In September 2006, the University of Rhode
Island Cooperative Extension Home*A*Syst and 4-H Programs
and the URI Department
of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Science received a three
year Extension Education grant to create an education program
for small acreage livestock owners and managers focusing
on pollution prevention best management practices (BMPs).
Visit
our small acreage
livestock link for more information.
The URI Healthy Landscapes Program includes
the following partners:
URI
Cooperative Extension Home*A*Syst Program, one of
four programs within the URI
CE Water Quality Program, is providing the overall
coordination of the program, including installation of
the demonstration sites, as well as working to develop
educational materials and conduct workshops promoting
healthy landscape techniques.
URI
GreenShare Program is providing the link with the
professional landscape community and conducting professional
training, and publicizing healthy landscape tips via
Channel 10 TV’s Plant
Pro.
URI
Master Gardener Program is providing volunteers to
help with demonstration site installations. Master Gardeners
are being trained in healthy landscapes techniques as
well as educating community residents at events and programs.
Town
of North Kingstown, RI -- Town Council, Conservation
Commission, Groundwater Committee, departments of Water
Supply & Planning and Development, and Town Manager,
Richard Kerbel are a partner in this project. Town members
were the original inspiration behind this project’s
efforts and continue to promote healthy landscape techniques
to community members. Protecting and conserving water
resources is of utmost importance to the Town.
Technical
Resources
The Healthy Landscapes Program has a Technical Team that provides reviews,
authorship and recommendations for Project Resources including demonstration
sites, printed materials, and media outreach. This Team consists of URI Faculty,
staff, master gardeners, and landscape professionals. In addition, the University
of Connecticut faculty and staff lead an effort to coordinate and share information,
resources and programs on the topic of sustainable landscaping among Cooperative
Extension Water Quality Programs throughout the New England Region.
URI
Faculty, staff and master gardeners
URI College of the
Environment and Life Sciences
Department
of Plant Sciences
Dr.
Steve Alm, Professor of Entomology
Dr.
Richard Casagrande, Chairman, Plant Sciences Dept. & Professor
of Entomology
Dr. Brian
Maynard, Professor of Horticulture
Dr.
Nathaniel Mitkowski, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
Dr.
Wm. Michael Sullivan, Professor of Agronomy
Department of Natural
Resources Science
Dr. Arthur
Gold, Professor of Watershed Hydrology & Director,
URI CE Water Quality Program
Alyson McCann,
Coordinator, URI CE Home*A*Syst
Program
Holly Burdett,
Research Associate, URI CE Home*A*Syst
Program
Lisa Gould,
Research Associate, RI Natural
History Survey
Cooperative
Extension Education Center
Dr.
Marion Gold, Director and URI CE GreenShare
Program Coordinator & Plant Pro
David Hughes, Assistant to the director, and URI Master Gardener
Cooperative Extension Master Gardener
Program
Rosanne Sherry,
Program Coordinator
Rudi Hempe, URI Master Gardener Association
Cooperative Extension State 4-H Program
Marcia
Morreira, Program Leader
Kristina
Horan, State Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator
URI
College of Human Science and Services
Dr.
John Boulmetis, Director, URI Institute of Human
Science and Services
Landscape Professionals
Richard Clark, Clark Farms and past
President, RI
Nursery and Landscape Association
Frank Crandall, Wood River Evergreens
Mike Merner, Earth Care Farm
David Renzi, Out In Front Horticulture
Paul Thompson, Thompson Organic Landscaping
Retail
Garden Supply Stores in the North Kingstown Area:
Gillette's Home and Garden Center (Kingston Agway)
Allen's Seed Store
Wickford Lumber
The
CSREES New England Regional Water Quality Program
The
CSREES New England Regional Water Quality Program works to
improve water quality management through educational knowledge
and extension programming that emerges from a research base.
The program builds on the strengths of the Extension Water
Quality Programs at the Land Grant Universities throughout
New England.
New
England Region Sustainable Landscapes
Focus Area Success Stories
New
England Region Sustainable Landscapes Resource
Links
-- New England's Land Grant Universities
University
of Connecticut Faculty and Staff
The Sustainable Landscaping Focus Area, within the
residential pollution prevention program area, is being led
by the University of Connecticut (UCONN) Cooperative Extension
Service with support from UCONN, College of Agriculture and
Natural Resources faculty and staff.
Dr.
Karl Guillard, Associate Professor of Agronomy,
Department of Plant Science, College
of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Roy
Jeffrey, Assistant to Associate Director/Cooperative
Extension Residential Water Quality Program, CES
Storrs, CT
Karen
Filchak, Extension Educator, Cooperative
Extension Residential Water Quality Program, Windham
County Extension Center
UConn
Water Quality and the Home Landscape
USDA
Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension
Service
CSREES advances knowledge for agriculture,
the environment, human health and well-being,
and communities through national program leadership
and federal assistance. USDA CSREES is funding
both the Healthy Landscapes Education Program
and
the New England Regional Water Quality Program.
| This
material is based upon work supported by the Cooperative
State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
National Integrated Water Quality Program, under Agreement No. 2002-51130-01939. |
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