Landscaping & Gardening: Planting for a Clean Water Future

Join the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission (SWMPC) and sponsoring partners for a Low Impact Development workshop on March 3, 2012 from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. at the New Troy Community Center located at 13372 California Road in New Troy, Michigan. At this workshop, you will learn that even our landscaping and gardening practices make a difference. Lawn and garden chemical applied in the Lake Michigan basin can poluute streams, rivers and lakes. It's easy to adopt landscape and gardening practices that will protect our water.

The keynote speaker will be a native plant and garden expert from the from Cardno/JFNew Native Plant Nursery, one of the largest native plant nurseries in the Midwest.

Registration cost is $5.00 and includes lunch. RSVP is required.

Register on-line by February 23, 2012 at www.swmpc.org or call 269.925.1137 x21.

Click here to download the event flyer.