Four-Season Yard Worker Tip Sheet in English and Spanish

NRWA's one-pager organizes landscaping chores by season and gives suggestions on responsible ways to handle property maintenance to benefit your plants, animals, properties, the water you drink, and the watershed where you live and work. Recommendations include advice from area landscaping professionals. The project was made possible by a Long Island Sound License Plate Program grant from CT Department of Environmental Protection because better property management will improve the quality of the water that supplies our rivers, wells, reservoirs, and Long Island Sound.

Property owners and landscaping professionals are encouraged to download the handout and distribute it to yard workers, associates, clients, and neighbors. The more people understand the consequences of the care they give their lawns and plantings, the more they will care and act to make their part of the world cleaner and healthier. Property care is one area where every person can help to improve the quality of runoff - the non-point pollution which is so difficult to trace and manage and which is the major factor in water pollution of local streams running down to the Sound.

The one-page restriction of this handout limited the number and detail of topics to be discussed. Therefore, NRWA will be creating a supplemental list of additional recommendations that will be posted on this site. If you have discussion points or ways to distribute the information that you'd like to suggest, please send the information to info@norwalkriver.org.

• To download the Four-Season Yard Worker Tip Sheet in English, click here.
• To download the Four-Season Yard Worker Tip Sheet in Spanish, click here.