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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
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