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Sustainable
Landscaping 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 & 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:
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 Gauges: Your most important
garden tool
Rain Gardens:Enhancing your
home landscape & protecting water quality
Brochure -- Town
of North Kingstown Demonstration Rain Garden (click here
for print version
of brochure)
White
Grub Control - Alternative
control of the oriental beetle: Mass Trapping & Mating
Disruption
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to top
Other
URI CE Home*A*Syst Program
factsheets - residential pollution prevention:
What
you can do about Nonpoint source pollution
Household Hazardous
Products
Pet Waste
Shoreland Buffers
Water Conservation
in and Around
the Home
Home
Landscape Improvements for Water Quality Protection
Small
Acreage Livestock Factsheet Series Today's
Forest, Tomorrow's Legacy: A Guide for Small Acreage Woodland
Owners.
Private
Drinking Water Well Protection Series
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Other
URI Resources: URI
CE GreenShare factsheets cover a variety of lawn and
garden topics, including the Sustainable
Trees and Shrubs listing.
URI
CE Coastal Landscapes Program - includes a RI
Coastal Plant Guide.
URI
CE Brochure - Safe
Use of Rain Barrel Water in the Vegetable Garden
URI Master Gardener Program - gardening fact sheets
URI
Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials
-- visit their publications
page to view their porous
pavement series, rain garden guides, and stormwater
training materials.
RI
Stormwater Solutions Website Back to top:
Healthy Landscapes Final Report
Cultivating Change: engaging community participation in
water quality protection Healthy
Landscapes Annual Report Summaries
Year One,
September 2002 - August 2003
Year Two, September 2003 - August 2004
Year Three, September 2004 - August 2005
Year Four, September 2005 - August 2006
Town
of North Kingstown MANAGE Summary
General information
about the Healthy Landscapes Education Program
URI
Healthy Landscapes Small Acreage Livestock Education
Program 
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