Ways To Help Your Community Practice Sustainable Yard Care?

• Schedule a Master Gardener to speak to your community about sustainable yard care practices.
• Use this sample Master Gardener presentation, if you can’t schedule a representative to give the talk.
• Use this sample flyer to advertise the Master Gardener talk.
• Create a demonstration rain garden for your community.
• Consider a voluntary “recommended” landscaper program, such as the one Charlestown created.
• Promote RIDEM’s Self-Certification Checklist for “Green Landscaping Certification.”
• Publicize stormwater-friendly lawn care tips regularly.