Success StoryYour yard and water quality: "Lawn and Gardening Our Way to Hell in a Vegetable Basket"
Your yard and water quality: "Lawn and Gardening Our Way to Hell in a Vegetable Basket"
Author: Brad Lee
Planning Unit: Plant and Soil Sciences
Major Program: Water and Soil Quality and Conservation
Outcome: Initial Outcome
Urban audiences often mistakenly believe that rural areas and agricultural production operations are solely responsible for water quality issues and excess nutrients in the environment. I developed an urban water quality education program focusing on nutrient additions to urban areas and present this information to Master Gardener audiences and homeowners (~100 participants) via a zoom meeting coordinated by Dr. Rick Durham, UK Horticulture Extension Professor. Participants were brought up to speed regarding the two major sources of nitrogen and phosphorus imported to urban areas (fertilizer and dogs), excess nutrient concentrations in urban soils, and what they can do to mitigate excess nutrients. Outcomes include participants are learn that urban areas have a higher soil phosphorus content than agricultural soils and they learn what steps they can do to reduce nutrient runoff risk from their lawn and neighborhoods.
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