Your family yard is an extension of your home – providing a respite from stress, offering an outside entertainment area, expanding your living space, and giving kids and pests a safe place to play. Here are TurfMutt’s top tips!
Take Stock of Tools:
Do you need to replace your outdoor power equipment (lawn mower, leaf blower, trimmer, etc.?) Want to install a smart irrigation system? Plan now so you’re ready!
Remember Wildlife and Pollinators:
Nature starts at your backdoor. Grass, trees, shrubs, and flowering plants provide food and habitat for birds, small mammals and pollinators, plant accordingly.
Plant for Kids and Pets:
There are many species of turfgrass. Your local garden center or landscaper can help you identify what will work best.
Plan for Fun:
You might want an outdoor room fire pit, pergola, sandbox, outdoor furniture or a decorative water feature, furniture, or a decorative water feature.
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About the TurfMutt Foundation
TurfMutt, which celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2024, was created by the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute’s (OPEI) TurfMutt Foundation and has reached more than 70 million children, educators and families since 2009. The Foundation is title sponsor of “Lucky Dog,” the Emmy Award-winning CBS broadcast television show in support of dog rescue and rehabilitation. Both TurfMutt spokesdogs have been rescue dogs, and Mutt Mulligan is a cast character on the show, where her “Mulligan Minute” segments teach viewers about the benefits of green space. In 2024, the Great Lawn at Louisville’s award-winning Waterfront Park on the Ohio River was renamed the TurfMutt Foundation Great Lawn as part of a $1 million sponsorship. Championed by Mulligan the TurfMutt, and through education partners such as Scholastic, Discovery, Weekly Reader, and the USBGC Global Learning Lab, TurfMutt has taught students and teachers how to “save the planet, one yard at a time.” TurfMutt has been an education resource at the U.S. Department of Education’s Green Ribbon Schools, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Green Apple, the Center for Green Schools, the Outdoors Alliance for Kids, the National Energy Education Development (NEED) project, Climate Change Live, Petfinder and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 2017, the TurfMutt animated video series won the coveted Cynopsis Kids Imagination Award for Best Interstitial Series. More information at www.TurfMutt.com.
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