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(Beyond Pesticides, October 6, 2009) <\/em>What started as a one-acre pilot project and grew into a 16-acre test, is now going to be taking over the entire Harvard University campus grounds. Harvard has committed to managing its entire 80-acre campus with pesticide-free, natural, organic lawn and landscape management strategies<\/a>, all the while saving tens of thousands of dollars a year. <\/p>\n

According to the Harvard Yard Soils Restoration Project Summary Report<\/a>, the pilot project was modeled after New York City\u2019s Battery Park City Parks\u2019 37-acre organic landscape program<\/a> that began back in 1989. The goal of the project was simply to improve soil health, develop knowledge base on how to run such programs as well as educate the campus community about the many benefits or organic lawn care. <\/p>\n

For eight months, the one-acre test plot was extensively compared to a control plot of conventional management techniques. That one-acre underwent a process that included eliminating all toxic pesticides, testing for soil nutrients and organic material content, and adding compost teas to balance soil nutrients and reduce irrigation and nitrogen applications. The compost tea, a liquid biological amendment from the brewing vat located nearby, is made up of liquid humic acid and North Atlantic kelp as well as granular humate. In the tea are living organisms that will control pests and nourish the soil. In the spring, the turf area is core aerated, over-seeded and \u00bd inch layer of compost is added. A slow-release organic fertilizer is also added in late spring. <\/p>\n

Root measurements, taken bi-weekly, were compared to the control plot. The results show that the organic plot lead to greater vitality of the turf and trees and greater soil nutrients and soil microorganism, improved root growth to five inches, and a reduced need for irrigation. <\/p>\n

The success of the one-acre plot showing that halting synthetic toxic pesticide and fertilizer use and using only natural, organic approaches to reinvigorate soil health drew the attention of Harvard\u2019s president, Drew Gilpin Faust, Ph.D. The one-acre blossomed to 16 acres last year and this past spring about 10 more acres were added. The pilot project and its expansion over the past months has demonstrated that the campus grounds grown organically are self sustaining, lush, and beautiful, despite heavy foot traffic. Now Harvard is calling for a phase-in of the entire campus over the next few years. Part of the campus-wide project success is in Harvard\u2019s own composting facility, which is currently being expanded.<\/p>\n

The September 24, 2009 New York Times<\/em> article, \u201cThe Grass Is Greener at Harvard<\/a>,\u201d states that managing the grounds with an organic management approach saves the school two million gallons of water a year as irrigation needs have been reduced by 30 percent. It cost Harvard $35,000 a year to get rid of \u201clandscape waste\u201d from its campus grounds. Now that cost is gone, now the school keeps all grass clippings, leaves and branches it can for composting and making compost teas, which in turn saves the university an additional $10,000 from having to purchase fertilizers elsewhere. <\/p>\n

As a kind of \u201csoil lab,\u201d the brainchild of Harvard\u2019s Graduate School of Design (GSD)<\/a> Professor of Landscape Architecture Michael Van Valkenburgh, these pristine plots are managed by GSD Loeb Fellow Eric T. Fleisher and carefully tended by Wayne Carbone, Manager of Harvard\u2019s Landscape Services, and his crew. <\/p>\n

\u201cUnlike conventional soil improvement, we are taking a very different approach,\u201d explains Mr. Fleisher. \u201cInstead of applying a topical, chemical fertilizer, our biological approach is to create a chemical change by infusing the soil with biological organisms from the bottom up.\u201d <\/p>\n

It all started with a conversation Mr. Van Valkenburgh had with Harvard University President Drew Faust as they walked through the Yard. Asked what one thing he would do to protect the Yard, Mr. Van Valkenburgh recommended soil remediation, pointing to the loss of trees in the Yard due to soil degradation and compaction. Two rows of tulip trees that once graced the area outside Massachusetts Hall died some years ago, and others have also taken the count only 12 years after they were planted due to soil degradation around the root systems. With that, a pilot study was launched. <\/p>\n

\u201cMichael has been working for many years on correcting the plant palette and planting conditions at Harvard Yard,\u201d said Mr. Fleisher. \u201cI have been working on building a program at Battery Park City for the past 19 years focusing on managing public space through completely organic means, my main focus being on soil. One of my goals as a Loeb Fellow was to prove the transferability of my program at Battery Park City to another organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike creating a new lawn from scratch, the challenge of remediating established soil is that it cannot be aggressively removed. Instead, the lawn is fed periodically with an \u201corganic tea\u201d that promotes beneficial microbial activity in the soil and promotes growth. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe lawn takes longer to green up,\u201d said Mr. Fleisher, \u201cbut it\u2019s more enduring and resilient with our properly executed organic approach.\u201d <\/p>\n

He is often quoted as saying, \u201cIt\u2019s not product-based. It\u2019s knowledge-based.\u201d In a Harvard Gazatte <\/em>article<\/a> he talks about the fact that \u201cadding chemicals denies the biological, chemical, and structural complexity of soils\u201d\u00a6 and that healthy plants begin with healthy soils.\u201d <\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to go to Harvard to start an organic lawn program at home or in your community. Harvard has developed materials on starting your own organic landscaping program<\/a> and a calendar of when to do what to your lawn<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em> article<\/a> also does a good job of explaining the how\u2019s and why\u2019s to managing lawns and landscapes organically.<\/p>\n

For more information on being a part of the growing organic lawn care movement, see Beyond Pesticides Lawns and Landscapes program page<\/a>. For assistance in proposing a policy to your school or city council (or its equivalent), contact Beyond Pesticides at info@beyondpesticides.org<\/a> or 202-543-5450. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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