Garden Green is hosting a community forum on pesticides, in case folks on the EcoNet group would like to attend:
Full Title: Vashon Pesticide Forum: Safe, Effective Alternatives to these Toxic Three: Roundup, Weed & Feed, & Preen
Date: Saturday, March 9
Time: 10:00 to 11:30 am
Place: Chautauqua Elementary
Speakers:
- Michael Laurie, Senior Associate, Cascadia Consulting Group and past chair of the Vashon-Maury Island Groundwater Protection Committee, co-author of the Vashon-Maury Island Watershed Plan, founder of Watershed LLC, and co-founder of Garden Green
- Diane Emerson, owner, Emerson Gardening Services, Manager, Garden Green, with 17 years experience in the specialty chemical industry
- Shannon Britton, Grounds and Landscape Manager, Seattle University – where they have managed the entire campus without toxic pesticides for over 20 years: https://www.seattleu.edu/grounds/philosophy-and-practices/ Shannon will share how they manage their lawns, buildings, rain gardens, shrub and tree plantings, even their ballfields, without toxic pesticides. She will also cover the challenges they face with noxious weeds, and how they deal with them.
- Tanner Yelken, Garden Center Manager, Island Home Center and Lumber This Do It Best franchise pulled all their glyphosate products back in September, 2018. Tanner will talk about why.
- Other speakers to be announced
Questions from Attendees
There will be plenty of time for questions after the speakers present, so attendees are encouraged to come with their questions. We will focus our discussion on herbicides. If we do run out of time to address a particular question, we will research the answer to the question after the event, and get back to the person who raised it.
Handouts
We will have many handouts: information on alternatives to pesticides, the dangers of these 3 herbicides in particular, and a copy of the new Green Gardening Calendar, a seasonal calendar of guidance to help prevent the need for toxic pesticides.
Organizers: Diane Emerson, Michael Laurie, Art Chippendale, and Tania Kinnear. Please contact Diane if you have questions about the event. Dianeemerson@yahoo.com
Endorsements: Sustainable Vashon, Vashon Nature Center
Garden Green
For information on Garden Green, and the work we have been doing to promote alternatives to toxic pesticides in the Pacific Northwest, please see http://www.gardengreen.org
Link to Event Invite
Here is a link to the invitation to the event, if you would like to share it: http://evite.me/cjr5AajYFh