SPREAD THE WORD! The start of the spring season is the perfect time to harness the public’s excitement about the outdoors and remind them about the benefits of a well cared for lawn! Access our Lawn Care Month Toolkit for facts, resources, infographics, photos, and a logo that can be used in your social media […]

Lawn care tips probably aren’t top-of-mind for any homeowner-to-be. Even veteran homeowners and house renters—at least those without a passion for landscape design ideas and mowing—probably avoid thinking about their yards as much as possible. While this approach may be good for staying focused on more pressing matters, it does ignore the fact that lawns […]

By Nick Williams  –  Staff reporter, Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal The Toro Co., a Bloomington-based provider of mowers and irrigation systems for golf courses around the world, has made a minority equity investment in a Boston company that develops technology for automated drones to analyze turf grass. Terms of Toro’s investment was not […]

The Pesticide Program conducts the examination, licensing, and certification of pesticide applicators. MDAR presents the new Online Data System known as the ePLACE Portal. This portal is part of an initiative to bring all agencies within the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs into an online permitting and authorization system. This system provides an […]

LEMON GROVE, CA – For city officials in Lemon Grove, wildfire hazards really get their goat – or actually, a lot of goats. As has been the case periodically for a decade in the eastern San Diego County town, a herd of goats is voraciously eating open-space vegetation that otherwise would pose worrisome fire hazards […]