Green Spotlight Series: Sustainable Lawn Opportunities

What if you could grow a lawn that required barely any mowing, no pesticides or irrigation, and fostered pollinators and other wildlife? Tom Christopher will share his years of research and experience creating and maintaining such alternative greenswards. Transform turf into a healthy and attractive asset for the local ecosystem while saving money and reducing maintenance. Yes, the grass—and other adapted plants—can be greener on your side of the fence. 

This is a Green Spotlight Series presentation in partnership with the Maine Landscape And Nursery Association. Live attendance counts toward one recertification credit. Contact us for network association approval.

 Level: Intermediate to Advanced.

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Instructor Bio:

A New York Botanical Garden School of Professional Horticulture graduate, Tom Christopher has been designing and maintaining gardens with an environmental emphasis for more than four decades. He is the author of more than a dozen garden-related books, including Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can be a Source of Environmental Change, which he co-authored with Larry Weaner and was selected as a ‘Best Book of the Year” by the American Horticultural Society. Tom produces a weekly podcast and radio program, “Growing Greener,” that broadcasts on 19 radio stations nationwide and downloads to 12,000 additional listeners monthly. He gardens with his wife Suzanne (a climate scientist at Wesleyan University) in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts where they make vintage hard cider every fall from heirloom apples.