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Lawn Care: The Easiest Steps to an Attractive Environmental Asset – Features seven short how-to videos and photo galleries plus interactive images and concise directions to make it quick and easy to understand the steps to cultivating a healthy lawn that is an attractive environmental asset. Also available on iTunes or as .pdf file.

Turfgrass Species and Variety Guidelines for NYS – Now available as .pdf. Thinking about starting a new lawn or renovating an old one? This iBook will help you choose the grass species and varieties best adapted to your growing conditions, lawn care plan and expectations. Also available on iTunes.

Lawn Care Without Pesticides – Arm yourself with an understanding of what grasses need to thrive — and commit to a long-term plan to meet those needs — and you can grow a perfectly acceptable lawn while foregoing lawn chemicals. [12 MB .pdf]

Homeowners Lawn Care Water Quality Almanac – Provides a month-by-month plan for lawn care that results in a healthy lawn while preventing environmental damage.

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Mow less!

Learn about our urban grassland work at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn in this short PSA from Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams.  For more information, see our webinar Managing Green-Wood Cemetery in an Era of Climate Change.

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