Irvine has 253 homeowner associations, most of which still use toxic pesticides in the space around your home and up to your front door. If you want your HOA, school or city to go nontoxic, please tell your property manager and landscaper to go to this free event on February 3. Residents are welcome as well!
List of Irvine HOAs with contact info: http://legacy.cityofirvine.org/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=30379
Map of Irvine HOAs: http://legacy.cityofirvine.org/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=15310
Location:
Los Olivos Community Center
Bake Parkway and Irvine Center Drive
101 Alfonso, Irvine, California
Date: February 3, 2020
Time: 9 AM to 12 PM
About the event: Are you concerned about your HOA, city or school’s use of pesticides like glyphosate, 2,4-D and neonicotinoids? Do you want your HOA, city or school to use non-toxic landscaping practices? Our panelists present their successes and solutions that take us beyond the synthetic pesticide paradigm to a new way of viewing landscapes as a biological system that can support the plants we want without toxic pesticides and fertilizers.
Panelists:
Chip Osborne, nationally renowned organic expert
Organic Landscape Association founder, and Beyond Pesticides board member Chip Osborne has over 45 years experience as a professional horticulturist. For over two decades, he has been creating safe, sustainable and healthy athletic fields and landscapes through Natural Turf Management protocols. See an interview with Chip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkucQ7NDadQ&feature=youtu.be
Mayor Christina Shea
In 2016 she brought forward a proposal to make Irvine one of the first cities in the U.S. to use only organic pesticide abatement practices in its local parks, green belts, and open spaces. Since then, the city of Irvine has organically maintained over 570 acres of community and neighborhood parks and athletic fields, 800 acres of public right of way, including street medians and parkways, 70,000 trees, and nearly 1.5 million square feet of facilities.
M. Tom Carrasco, organic landscape professional
M. Tom Carrasco grew up in the Salinas Valley, one of the worlds richest agricultural areas. As a third generation of the green industry, he learned from his father about sustainability. Tom has a degree in Ornamental Horticulture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He has nearly 20 years of experience and has developed agronomic programs focused on IPM and organic land management, taught turfgrass management at National University in San Diego, and is an experienced arborist.
