Sustainability Fair

Use Fewer Resources

• Find out how to get your lawn off drugs
• Find out about Xeriscaping – using less water for your garden

• Slide presentation from City of Ottawa’s Pesticide Reduction Education Campaign (10 - 10:30 a.m.: Landscaping Alternatives, and 11 - 11:30 a.m.: Xeriscaping)

  • Landscaping Alternatives – escaping the lawn: This half-hour talk will introduce you to some alternatives to a grass lawn for your property in the Ottawa area. Design ideas and horticultural details of suitable installations will be presented.
  • Xeriscaping: Explore the gardening methods that allow you to enjoy a water-conserving garden in the Ottawa area. This half-hour presentation will introduce the horticultural techniques and plants suitable for a low water-use garden.

“Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.”

–Canadian Unitarian Council, 7th principle