YardScape
What is YardScaping?
YardScaping helps you build healthy soil to grow all kinds of landscapes from lawns to rain gardens in your yard without relying on pesticides and fertilizers. It also helps:
Create a low-maintenance yard that saves you money, time, and effort.
Make your yard more functional for how YOU want to use it.
Be more resistant to pests and prepared for drought.
Attract more birds, butterflies, and other wildlife.
Prevent erosion and drainage issues.
District YardScaping Conservation Demonstration Gardens
The District received grant funds to implement YardScaping demonstration sites right here in our parking lot! Demonstration sites are aimed at providing education to residents, businesses, municipalities, and partners by illustrating conservation techniques that can easily be utilized in one’s own yard.
Each technique mimics nature by creating habitats, filtering pollutants, and preventing erosion, while building healthy soils for native plants. Demonstration sites will be constructed using low maintenance conservation practices and without any pesticides or invasive plants.
Check back here in the spring as we add workshops to our calendar! Workshops are held outdoors, allowing attendees to go hands-on in the gardens.
Map Tour of our Demonstration Sites
Do you hire a landscaping company?
Ask them to use YardScaping practices like:
Apply fertilizer in the early fall, based on soil test results, not on a fixed schedule. Applying unneeded fertilizer is a waste of time and money and pollutes our water.
Build topsoil by aerating and topdressing soil with compost. Compost will add organic matter, hold more water, and increase topsoil depth for healthier roots.
Use YardScaping practices to reduce pests instead of using pesticides.
Use native plants that provide food and shelter to pollinators and other wildlife.
Partner Stores
Look for the YardScaping duck when visiting these stores to find products and plants that align with YardScaping practices.
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Dupuis Hardware
Home Depot
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Skillins Greenhouses
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Ace Hardware
Allen, Sterling & Lothrop
Skillins Greenhouses
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O’Donal’s Nursery
Ossipee Trail Garden Center
Plummer’s Ace Hardware
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Eldredge Lumber & Hardware
Home Depot
Maine Hardware
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Moody’s Nursery & Garden Center
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Dunstan Ace Hardware
Flaherty’s Family Farm
Highland Farm
Oak Hill Ace Hardware
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Broadway Gardens
Drillen Ace Hardware
Shopper’s True Value
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Broadway Gardens
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Aubuchon Hardware
Blue Seal Feeds & Needs
Home Depot
Roosevelt Trail Landscape & Garden
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Ace Coastal Hardware
Estabrooks
