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Laura Grape,
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Safe Drinking Water
Sitara Sastry, a student from Oakton High School and a Virginia Association of Soil & Water Conservation Districts Youth Conservation Leadership Institute fellow recently researched where the drinking water in her school comes from. Learn more about the path water takes to get to our schools.
Looking forward to spring? Ready to open the windows for some fresh air and take a walk or bike ride on your favorite local trail? While you’re out, take a look at the splashes of color by the trailside and see if you recognize any of the early wildflowers. These spring ephemerals only bloom for a short time every spring.
Contrary to popular practice, spring is not the time to fertilize your lawn. If you fertilize in early spring, the blades will grow at the expense of the roots developing. Extra fertilizer will run off into streams and rivers, polluting fisheries and local drinking water sources.
Virginia Cooperative Extension's Home Turf program brings Master Gardener expertise to the grasses in lawns across Northern Virginia.
Interest in locally grown food is on the rise, from urban gardening to backyard chicken operations. Can Fairfax County residents keep chickens? How can owners care for chickens? What is the best way to manage chicken waste?
Cigarette Butts Pollute
Heavy Metal Pollution
Picking Up Pet Waste
Drinking Smart: Bottled Water or Tap?
Non Point Source Pollution - Identify and Prevent It
Wastewater - where does it go
Drinking water - where does it come from
Early Wildflowers: Spring Ephemerals
Emerald Ash Borer Threat
Fall Color of Trees
Understanding Tree Roots
Poison Ivy
Early Wildflowers
Dogwoods
Plant Native Plants
Discover Early Spring Wildflowers
What's the Buzz on Bees?
What's Happening to Our Bats?
Create a Monarch Waystation
Limiting Lyme Disease - Naturally?
Bluebirds Success Story
Garter Snakes
