#33 This Land is Our Land

Public Gardens, Publicly Aware

Our season finale takes us to the Rose of New England, Norwich, CT - a city famous for its beautiful rose gardens - where Paul Tukey spoke on organic lawn and garden care to benefit the Chelsea Gardens Foundation, one of the first public gardens in America to maintain their grounds organically from day one. On their drawing board is the 80-acre, world-class Chelsea Botanical Gardens. This special 90 minute show features Paul's riveting talk about the health and safety dangers of using chemical pesticides and fertilizers, as well as their devastating impact on our environment.

See you next year!

We hope you've enjoyed our first season of SafeLawns & Landscapes, The Radio Show, as much as we've enjoyed doing it! We will be back next summer. Paul and the crew are taking the interim off from this show as Paul focuses on the book he's writing, and its companion documentary movie about Hudson, Quebec. The tiny community nearby Montreal made history by becoming the first town in North America to ban chemical lawn and garden products from public land. It provoked decades of court battles, but Hudson prevailed. Today, it is unlawful to use cosmetic chemical pesticides and fertilizers in all of Quebec province. The film, "A Chemical Reaction" is due to be released in Spring '09. We'll see you in next summer!

Learn how you too can lead the crusade in your community to help "save our environment, one lawn at a time." Please visit us online at www.safelawns.org and www.safelawns.net.