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Healthy Landscapes Factsheets:

The Basics for a Healthy Landscape:
Choose the right plant for the right spot
Recycle your yard waste
Use fertilizers and pesticides responsibly
Water wisely
Reduce runoff from your yard and increase groundwater recharge
Reduce soil erosion. Keep it planted and mulched.
Pick up after your pets
Use and dispose of fuels and hazardous products properly

Additional Factsheets:
Alternative control of the oriental beetle: Mass Trapping and Mating Disruption
Drip Irrigation for the Home Garden
Groundwater is vital to North Kingstown's way of life
Healthy Lawn Care and Renovation
How to build and install a rain barrel
Rain Barrels
Rain Gardens - Enhancing your home landscape and protecting water quality
Brochure -- Town of North Kingstown Demonstration Rain Garden
(click here for print version of brochure)
Rain Gauges - Your most important garden tool
Town of North Kingstown MANAGE Summary

Small Acreage Livestock Factsheet Series:

Home Landscape Improvements for Water Quality Protection
A companion to the Rhode Island Home*A*Syst Handbook.

URI CE Home*A*Syst Program residential pollution prevention factsheet series:

Other Resources:
Today's Forest, Tomorrow's Legacy: A Guide for Small Acreage Woodland Owners. Developed by URI CE Home*A*Syst Program and the Southern New England Forest Consortium, Inc. in cooperation with the RI DEM Division of Forest Environment.

URI GreenShare factsheets cover a variety of lawn and garden topics, including the Sustainable Trees and Shrubs listing.

URI Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (URI CE Water Quality Program - NEMO) -- visit their publication page and look for their pervious pavement series.

University of Connecticut Residential Water Quality and the Home Landscape web page

University of Connecticut NEMO website on reducing runoff

Healthy Landscapes Final Report
Cultivating Change: engaging community participation in water quality protection

Healthy Landscapes Annual Report Summary --
Year One, September 2002 - August 2003

Year Two, September 2003 - August 2004
Year Three, September 2004 - August 2005
Year Four, September 2005 - August 2006

General information about the Healthy Landscapes Education Program

URI Small Acreage Livestock Publications