Helpful links

For garden services and retailers trained in natural lawn and garden care, go to the Grassroots Healthy Lawn Program’s Web site at www.ghlp.org or to the Northeast Organic Farmers Association, at www.organiclandcare.net/forthehomeowner.php.

Cornell University offers details on lawn management and organic land care at www.gardening.cornell.edu/lawn.

For a quick overview on the Grassroots Healthy Lawn Program, see www.grassrootsinfo.org/ghlp.html.

Neighborhood Network cites specific information on how to use organic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides at www.longislandnn.org/pesticides/products.htm

Riverkeeper lets visitors know what they can do to “Go Organic” and garden for clean water, at www.riverkeeper.org/campaign.php/watershed/you_can_do/1310

The Suffolk County Water Authority’s “The Three Best Things You Can Do,” can be found at www.scwa.com/environment/fertilizer.cfm

The Wall Street Journal’s April 15, 2006 article, “Turf Wars,” can be read at www.beyondpesticides.org/lawn/news/wsj.htm.

Northeast Organic Farmers Association offers “A Citizen’s Guide to Organic Land Care,” at
www.organiclandcare.net/publications/index.php

Natural Resources Defense Council’s informative article, “A Greener Lawn,” can be found at www.nrdc.org/thisgreenlife/0505.asp. Also, check out www.nrdc.org/onearth02spr/livgreen.asp.

This is part of the May 15, 2008 online edition of The Riverdale Press.

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