Lawn Alternatives and Organic Lawn Care
with Paul Tukey, author and director of regional partnerships, Glenstone Museum
Thursday, January 23, 2025 from 7-8 p.m. ET
Virtual
$15 AHS members/$20 non-members
This program is approved for 1 CEU with the Association of Professional Landscape Designers.
Lawn Care: Safe & Simple! Join Paul Tukey, the author of the Organic Lawn Care Manual, for this tutorial on safe, natural, and cost-effective lawn care strategies. He’ll also talk about lawn alternatives, and offer some real-time examples from the Glenstone Museum, which has been maintaining its 350-acre campus organically since 2010.
Paul Tukey, who joined the Glenstone Museum team in 2010, is an award-winning journalist, author, filmmaker, HGTV host, consultant and motivational public speaker who is internationally recognized as a pioneering leader in sustainable landscaping. Now serving as the Director of Environmental Stewardship at Glenstone, Paul has been helping to create a “living classroom” on the all-organic 300-acre site that includes native meadows, a five-acre organic lawn, restored streams and tributaries, forests and more than 12,000 recently planted native trees. Tukey and Glenstone were the inspiration for the Montgomery County law LD 52-14 restricting the use of pesticides on lawns. He has also worked with the French government’s educational campaign focus on organic lawn care as a carbon reduction strategy.
Winner of the prestigious Communicator of the Year Award from the American Horticultural Society, as well as the 2018 Green Medal Award from the Garden Writers of America, Paul has been featured in thousands of media outlets from Martha Stewart and Good Morning America as well as National Geographic, Readers Digest and the New York Times, which called him, “The godfather of the natural land care movement.” He has published four magazines, including People, Places & Plants (1995-2009), and produced and co-hosted an HGTV show of the same name. His books include the Organic Lawn Care Manual (Storey 2007). His 2010 feature-length documentary film titled, “A Chemical Reaction,” profiling the lawn pesticide bans sweeping across Canada and the U.S., earned three EMMY nominations.
