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• Re: Reducing Residential Fertilizer Use

  2010-06-21 13:37:33 UTC

  I am working with local lawn care professionals to uncover percieved barriers and benefits to reducing fertilizer use. I am also hoping to work with local Homeowner Associations to break down some of the barriers. I am currently in the middle of the project, but I have already gathered a lot of information. I'd be happy to discuss what I have learned thus far in a loose context, but I don't have anything solid published as of yet.
  
  
  
  Jenna Halsey
  MS Candidate
  Oregon State University, Marine Resource Management
  

• Reducing Fertilizer Use

  2010-04-30 14:41:13 UTC

  Greetings fellow sustainable minds,
  
  I am a graduate student at Oregon State University and I'm working on a program with the City of Corvallis' Stormwater Program to reduce fertilizer use and improve water quality. I am working with local lawn care professionals to uncover barriers in a few selected practices and I could use any literature about perceived barriers to reducing fertilizers in lawns. The behaviors that I am targeting are mulch-mowing or recycling grass clippings, using slow-release fertilizers, testing the soil regularly, and sweeping any excess fertilizer or clippings off of hard surfaces (i.e. sidewalks, streets) and back into the lawn. These are the "low hanging fruits" that will be easy for lawn care professionals to bite.
  
  If you have any literature about these behaviors or any barriers that pertain to lawn care in general, that would be very much appreciated!
  
  Thank you!
  
  Jenna Halsey
  
  Jenna Halsey
  MS Candidate
  Oregon State University, Marine Resource Management
  United States

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