• Learn to Keep Insects Out of your Crops
  • Learn to Manage Pests Naturally
  • Driving Near Recently Sprayed Fields Exposes People to Pesticides
  • Learn To Manage Weeds Without Chemical Pesticides
  • Link to SK Organic Resources
  • SNAP Display at Event
  • Learn About Pesticides in Foods
  • Weeds Can Be Managed Without Chemical Pesticides
  • Grow a Lush Garden Organically
  • SNAP Tour of Organic Vegetable Garden

How to move my landlord, school, condo to alternatives?

Q 1. My landlord, school, condo is planning to spray. What can I do to make them choose alternatives?

  1.  I understand from several people living in public housing or condos in Regina that talking to the other tenants and getting them to sign a petition indicating they do not want pesticide (or herbicide) or whatever spraying has been working for many.
  2.  Then the petition can be presented to the administration or condo association. It might be harder in a condo association, as owners may be a lot more concerned about the appearance of the property.
  3.  You can take information about alternatives to other condo owners and the administration.
  4.  Then bring the documents to the town office, administration, etc. with a friendly note. Confrontations rarely work.

"If you don’t get any feedback from the handouts, let me know. I’ll be happy to discuss some more poignant strategies." Paul Tukey (10/26/2009). Paul Tukey is the author of The Organic Lawn Care Manual for land owner. He also has a very well explained DVD on organic lawn care and a web site: http://www.safelawns.org/blog/ (link lost) Book is still very good.

Regina

Unfortunately, at present, I cannot recommend a particular company that offers organic lawn care in Regina as they mostly do not return my calls when I ask for that type of information. On Saturday at the Organic Gardening class I gave at Sherwood library, one young man said he had started a lawn care business last summer and really wants to go organic.

Enviromasters  and a few oter companies offers a 100% organic and pesticide-free program and they have web sites but, likely, if most of their business is still chemical, they would use the same tank trucks for both and that puts in question the organic part.

Additional Information

National Coalition for Pesticide-Free Lawns  have a lot of alternatives informations and Tools for Change section.

SNAP linkspesticide bylaws