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Commit to Natural Lawn Care in 2021

3/12/2021

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As you plan your lawn care for the coming season, we urge you to choose a natural lawn care company! 

Who?
A natural lawn care company is one that will build the health and vitality of your lawn without the use of chemical herbicides or pesticides. If they are qualified, they will tell you how. PLEASE NOTE: A Company is not natural just because its name includes the word “green.” 

What?
Herbicides are chemicals used to prevent weeds from emerging in the lawn or kill existing weeds. Once applied, they not only kill weeds but persist in the soil. They also destroy the colonies of organisms in healthy soil that form the ‘soil food web’ and are meant to help keep soil healthy. 


When?
Now is the time to be shopping for and contracting with a natural lawn care company, in preparation for the spring season…soon to come.


Why? 
  1. The use of herbicides in lawn care have long been known to cause cancer and other diseases, and are especially dangerous for children and pets who play on the lawn.  
  2. Herbicides are not meant to make the lawn itself healthy. Their only purpose is to kill the weeds on top. 
  3. Herbicides increase the cost of lawn care by breaking down organic systems within the soil that will keep it healthy if allowed to thrive. Once used, herbicides become a necessity to kill weeds because the soil under the lawn is thin and literally “dead” of organic life.

Where?
You can find a company that serves Park Ridge! 
We know some. We recommend Nature’s Lawn Care at (773)606-3729 or Fertilizer King at (773)775-7467.  More resources here. 
They will help educate you about a very different approach that builds your soil, creates thick healthy grass and involves no dangerous chemicals. And they will help you control the tough weeds in a different way!

Results?
Ask your friends in Go Green Park Ridge. Visit some lawns. Did you know that the Park Ridge Park District turf is taken care of with virtually no chemicals? Visit a park today and check it out! 



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Local election: candidate responses to questions about the environment & sustainability

3/3/2021

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 ​Park Ridge City Council (2nd Ward) Candidate Responses - 2021
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​Park Ridge School District 207 Board Candidate Responses
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Park Ridge Park District Board Candidate Responses
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The Most Sustainable Move You Can Make in Your 2021 Lawn

1/23/2021

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Yes, January is the time to make sure you will be saving money and building a healthy lawn, by doing one simple thing: make arrangements to save your own grass clippings! 
Grass clippings provide approximately 25% of the nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus needs of your grass.
Here’s how to ensure that you keep your valuable grass clippings: 
  • Mow no closer than 3.5 to 4 inches and use a mulching mower. This allows the clippings to fall easily into the lawn. Using a mulching mower will distribute the clippings so they do not clump.
  • If you use a mowing service, ask these two questions:
    1. Will you cut my grass no shorter than 4” and refrain from mowing if the grass does not require it?
    2. Do you use mulching mowers?
Your landscape maintenance company should answer both these questions affirmatively. If  they don’t, look elsewhere. It is possible to find qualified companies who will say “yes.”
If you make these plans now, you’ll be taking the first step to a healthier lawn.
Realize savings that your grass clippings provide and tweak your mowing services while there is still time.
You have the power to limit your contract to mowing only. If you haven't already, use this time of year to switch to an organic lawn care company for fertilization, aeration and other techniques that support a healthy and sustainable lawn.

Learn a bit more about natural lawn care here.

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