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O !"#$% '"#( %" ) %*++$,,)) +)+-) . Kimberly Stoner, Ph.D., Chair ! e Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT kim stoner Donald Bishop Gardens Are…, Marlborough, MA Dwight Brooks Dwight Brooks Horticulturist, Inc., Katonah, NY page Frank Crandall Wood River Evergreens, Hope Valley, RI Todd Harrington Harrington’s Safelawns & Landscape, LLC, Bloom" eld, CT Sarah Little, Ph.D. Pesticide Awareness Activist, Wellesley, MA Teresa Mucci Larry Weaner Landscape Design Associates, Wilton, CT Michael Nadeau Plantscapes, Inc., Fair" eld, CT Dina Pelletier, MPH Edible Organic Design, Avon, CT Priscilla Williams Pumpkin Brook Organic Gardening Inc., Townsend, MA Camilla Worden Camilla Worden Garden Design, Danbury, CT Bill Duesing CT NOFA Executive Director, Oxford, CT Ashley Kremser NOFA Organic Land Care Program, Manager, Oxford, CT Kathy Litch1 eld NOFA/Mass Organic Land Care Coordinator, Petersham, MA TOC page I$%*+0%1 P2*$3+ by Tim Abbey number of once-valued trees, shrubs, vines, ! ese plants have to be removed perennials and annu- by hand or mechanically, and for als are now considered terrestrial plants, herbicides are o# en Ainvasive pests. ! ey have dispersed used, an option not available to those from their original planting site to practicing organic land care. other locations and thrive there. One way that a vid gardeners and In naturalized areas, they establish the general public can do their part themselves at the expense of native to reduce the potential for additional plants. ! ey also detract from the introductions of aesthetic appear- I!+-%/+# 01-!"%: invasive plants is to ance of man- plant native plants aged landscapes Are not native to the ecosystem Before planting that invasive burning bush under consideration grown by local (Euonymus alatus), try one of the native plant and hamper nurseries.
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