No Pesticide Lawns and Gardens

It's easy to grow beautiful natural lawns and gardens without the use of pesticides!

Grow Healthy, Grow Smart is a program to reduce the non-essential or cosmetic use of pesticides by promoting natural lawns and gardens and encouraging residents to consider alternatives to pesticides.

The program includes workshops for Township residents and information resources for anyone interested.

Click here to learn about upcoming workshop dates.  Note! The time for the 'Natural Fruit Tree Care' workshop on April 29, 2012 has been rescheduled to begin at 1 pm, instead of 12 pm.

Below are links to useful information to help you reduce the use of pesticides and grow your lawn and garden naturally.

The Community Education on Environment and Development (CEED) in Maple Ridge provides a wealth of information specific to natural lawn and garden care:

• Natural Lawn Care 
• Natural Garden Care 

Non-pesticide or least toxic alternatives to dealing with a wide variety of weeds and pests:

• Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides

Additional Resources:

• Practice Natural Gardening and Landscaping
• Composting for Healthy Plants

More Information

Engineering Division
604.532.7300
enginfo@tol.ca