Organic Lawn Care Presentation by Sustainable Westford

First Parish Church United, 48 Main St, Westford, MA | Get Directions »
FREE

Organic Lawn Care Presentation with Chip Osborne   9:30-10:30 AM  

10:30 -12:00 Post Q & A including Westford Town Departments inc. Engineer Paul Starrett P.E., Water & Health.

Professionals and Home Owners welcome...FREE!  However, Registration is required.

Chip Osborne is a nationally recognized leader in Organic Lawn Care, a professional horticulturist with forty years experience in the green industry.  He is a NOFA Accredited Land Care Professional and a member of the NOFA Organic Land Care Governing Body.  Chip is a member of the Board of Directors of Beyond Pesticides in Washington DC.  He is also a ten-year elected member of the Town of Marblehead MA Recreation and Park Commission where he developed an organic management program for parks and athletic fields in 2001 in response to a Board of Health mandate that the town eliminate the use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.  In 2007 he founded Osborne Organics, a company that provides natural turf consulting services to business, municipal, and institutional clients.  A major focus of the business is providing education in the area of natural turf management.  Chip developed A Systems Approach to Natural Turf Management™ as a method of maintaining turf without the use of toxic chemicals.