Maureen Wise

Summer is here and it’s time to spend time outside on the lawn! A soft, green grassy area is the perfect spot to play cornhole, read a book, wrestle with the dog, or play tag with the kids. You’ve worked hard to make sure your lawn is healthy and comfortable. But what happens if you suddenly have an irregular dead patch of grass the color of straw? You may have a bout of Ascochyta Leaf Blight. This fungus can come on quickly! We have some tips to help you control Ascochyta Leaf Blight if you ...

Climate change is an important global issue that touches all of us. In Ohio, we are seeing warmer winters and stronger storms. Throughout the world, there are melting ice caps and wildfires. NASA itself has a whole division devoted to studying climate change and explaining it to the masses. (Check out their content for some solid science and educational tools!) Authorities tell us that in order to turn this problem around, the human race needs to both reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and d...

Pollination is a pretty basic, yet massively important, concept that we all learned about in elementary school. It’s the birds and bees of making food that uses birds and bees! By not using pesticides and by adding specific plants and features to your yard, you are creating pollinator habitat. Inviting pollinators into your backyard can actually help the world’s food production!

You read that right, flowers can hear. If hearing means responding to sound and vibration, that is. As reported in National Geographic, research conducted at Tel Aviv University last year concluded that flowers definitely respond to nearby vibrations.

Ohio Winters can be cold and snowy. None of us are mowing the lawn but we’ve seen some warm days this year and if you’re itching for some time outside, beyond making the occasional snow fort, here’s a short Winter yard to do list.

Good Nature has many municipal customers who are choosing to switch to Organic Lawn Care methods using our services. We’re proud to work with them and know they are partners to help keep our kids healthier and waterways cleaner. We caught up with a few of our customers and talked to them about how and why they choose to treat their green spaces naturally, instead of using conventional fertilizers and pesticides on playing fields.

Your neighbors may frown at your front yard, but here are four benefits to having an ugly lawn during the hottest months of the Summer.

The monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, is perhaps the most well-known butterfly. Their distinct orange and black markings make it easy for children and adults to identify them. But these beautiful butterflies are in danger with their numbers steadily declining. Much of their habitat is being taken aw...

If your family is looking to reduce the weight of the trash can you pull to the curb every week, composting your organic waste could cut your landfill trash by up to 30%, according to the US EPA. By composting your kitchen scraps and garden waste instead of landfilling, you’ll also help reduce greenhouse gases produced by landfills and end up with a locally made plant fertilizer (local, as in your own backyard!).

A recent National Geographic article came to our attention made us proud to be in this business we’re in and further confirmed that we’re doing the right thing. The populations of bees and other pollinators are declining due to the most common agricultural and home insecticides in the US, neonics.

Roundup is getting a lot of attention these days, as people are finally starting to realize how dangerous its ingredients can be long term. Roundup is used on thousands of acres of agriculture grown for our consumption, and we're starting to see the negative effects on our health and the environment. It is everywhere.