Topic: Paul Tukey

Pesticide lobby targets children

He is an organic lawn care warrior who never shies away from controversy yet never uses hyperbole or scare tactics. There's no denying that the pesticide industry is big business, and like all big business they pay vast amounts of money to ...

Your Lethal Lawn

Joe Speeney had never been a lawn geek, that suburban cowboy in the saddle of a candy-apple red Toro, pesticide bottle riding his hip like a six-shooter. And each time he looked at the small patch of turf behind his townhouse in ...
Lush green.That's the way Jane Witmer describes the lawn around her Seattle house. But if you look closely, there's some moss and some clover. "Wildflowers are beginning to bloom pink in the grass," she said.The small imperfections are the price she pays ...
Hot off the press (digitally speaking), my review of The Organic Lawn Care Manual by Paul Tukey. While I am not totally opposed to the idea of safely using synthetic fertilizers and chemical pesticides to achieve certain results on landscapes (I get ...
A Chemical Reaction, a documentary by Brett Plymale, is making the rounds at various film festivals around the globe. Another key component of the film is the story of Paul Tukey who I can only describe as the godfather of organic lawn ...

4 Steps To Greener Grass

THE PERFECTLY MANICURED lawnevery homeowner's dreamistoo often pursued to the detriment of the environment with chemicalfertilizers, pesticides, and gaspowered mowers. For a fourstep plan togreen your lawn without hurting the ecosystem, we consulted landscapingexpert Paul Tukey, author of The Organic Lawn Care ...