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Healthy Yards Program

The Healthy Yards Program provides watershed residents with the inspiration, information and tools required to create naturally beautiful lawns and gardens.

Workshops, fact sheets and subsidized garden and lawn supplies ease the adoption of sustainable practices in private yards.

Healthy yards is a term for sustainable behaviours carried out in private yards including:

  • gardening with native plants
  • removing invasive exotic plants
  • landscaping for energy conservation
  • creating wildlife habitat
  • composting
  • conserving water
  • reducing the use of polluting equipment
  • reducing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides

Send queries and comments to the program coordinator at ccirillo@trca.on.ca

 

Healthy Yards Connection

Healthy Yards Connection -
Your Link to Natural Gardening Resources in Your Neighbourhood

Want a rain barrel or composter? Looking for an organic lawn care service provider? Wondering what native plants will grow in your clay soil? The Healthy Yards Connection connects you with government agencies and organizations offering healthy yards products, services and information in your neighbourhood as well as municipal bylaws and restrictions regarding pesticide use, lawn watering and other related topics.

  • Adjala Tosorontio
  • City of Toronto
  • Durham Region
  • Mono
  • Peel Region
  • York Region

 

Healthy Yards Fact Sheets

 

Garden Transformations

Click here to go to the Garden Transformations page

Recommended Books

Click here to see a list of Recommended Books

Additional Information

Did you Know?

Replace some of your lawn with a native plant garden
Replace some of your lawn with a native plant garden, and watch your yard come alive with the sights and sounds of nature. Tell me more
Raising your mower blade to a height of 3 inches will shade-out sun-loving weeds, encourage deep root development, and keep soil cool and moist.
A standard gas mower can emit the same amount of common air pollutants in one hour as driving a new car for over 550 kilometres.

link to stewardship event registration