Try these contacts for lawn and garden tips. These experts can help you create a beautiful lake-friendly yard and garden!

Lawn to Lake website :

• Contains a list retailers that sell phosphorus-free fertilizers in Vermont and the New York portions of the Lake Champlain Basin! and more information about creaitng a lake-friendly lawn!.

University of Vermont Extension:

• UVM Master Gardener Program Website
• Vermont Master Gardener Helpine: 1-800-639-2230 or email master.gardener@uvm.edu
• UVM Extension Soil Test Information Website or call (802) 656-3030.
• Lake Friendly Gardening Fact Sheets Online

Cornell Cooperative Extension:

• Cornell University Home Gardening Website (Lots of resources and "Turf Guy" videos of eco-friendly lawn care.)
  
• Clinton County, NY
  Education Center
  6064 State Route 22
  Plattsburgh, NY 12901
  (518) 561-7450
  
• Essex County, NY
  PO Box 388
  Westport NY 12993-0388
  (518) 962-4810
  

Vermont Department of Agriculture Food and Markets
116 State Street, Drawer 20
Montpelier, VT 05620-2901
(802) 828-2416

Compost Resources:

• Small Scale or Backyard Composting (Cornell Waste Management Institute)
• Composting Association of Vermont
• Champlain Valley Compost Company
• Intervale Compost
• Moo Doo
• Planet Green

Your Lawn, Your Lake Brochure

• During the Spring of 2003, the Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation (GBIC), the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, and the Lake Champlain Basin Program combined efforts to reduce phosphorus runoff into Lake Champlain. This result is "Your Lawn, Your Lake" -- an informational brochure to educate residential and commercial lawn care owners on ways that they can help reduce phosphorous runoff into Lake Champlain. The brochure was distributed through Buyers Digest, Home Depot, and Gardener’s Supply and will be available at many business locations in Chittenden County. Please call us if you'd like a copy, or read online (834 KB PDF).