Implementing Sustainable Landscaping Practices for Turf and Trees

Wednesday, October 10th 9:00 - 11:00 AM   Presented by Janet Hartin, University of California Cooperative Extension CEU Accreditation: PLANET, 2; GCSAA, .2; PMGS, 2 To reserve this seminar, Click Here.

Course Description:
Maintaining public and private landscapes using resource-efficient practices effectively protects the environment, improves the health of the plantings, and is cost-effective. Irrigating based on the water requirements of plants; improving poor quality soil with soil amendments; preventing and reducing soil compaction; mulching landscape plantings; and, implementing Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices favoring prevention will be discussed with real-world examples provided.

Biography:
Janet Hartin is a nationally-recognized expert on sustainable landscape practices (irrigation and water management, greenwaste recycling and compost use, and integrated pest management stressing prevention) and has served as University of California Environmental Horticulturist for San Bernardino and Los Angeles Counties since 1984. During her career, she has presented over 1,000 talks to both professional and consumer audiences. Janet earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in Horticulture from University of Minnesota. She is currently a Principal Investigator (with UC colleagues Loren Oki and Dave Fujino) on a $450,000 contract from the CA Dept. of Water Resources to monitor the performance of a wide array of ornamental trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and turfgrasses grown under various microclimates and irrigation regimes in various climate zones throughout the state. She recently authored a book entitled ?EUR??,,????'?????<
Janet Hartin, Environmental Horticulturist, University of California Cooperative Extension, San Bernardino and Los Angeles Counties