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Conquer Your Weedy, Patchy, Dried Out Lawn Once and For All
Maintaining your lawn can be time-consuming, frustrating, and expensive. Between all the chemicals, interventions and services available for lawn care, it's easy to splash out a ton of money without seeing any improvement. You've aerated, fertilized, reseeded, watered, and you're still not seeing that beautiful carpet of green. What's going on?
Mucking Around On Top Won't Help.
You Need to Feed The Soil First!
You won't see the results you want by scratching around on the surface. More than half your grass lives below the surface, and that is what determines what you end up with on top. The key to a lush green lawn is to feed the soil, so that your grass can build the robust root system you need in order to support a gorgeous field of picnic-ready green.
Show Me How to Fix My Lawn!
A lawn you can be proud of!
It doesn't take a fortune or a ton of time to create the underground building blocks for a beautiful lawn.
No more harmful chemicals!
Get a yard that not only looks gorgeous, but is kid-safe, pet-safe, non-toxic, and pollinator-friendly.
Remove carbon from the air!
Rebuilding your soil health not only makes your grass greener, but also helps reduce your carbon footprint!
Discover a Fascinating Underground World...
In this course, you'll learn how to nourish soil microbes like mycorrhizal fungi, a symbiotic fungus that helps feed over 85% of plants on the planet with nutrients drawn from the soil.
Beneficial microbes embed themselves in your grass at the roots, bringing the nutrients that the grass needs in order to thrive. These microscopic critters can care of your lawn for you, saving you time and money.
These powerful microbes are already in your soil, but probably in dormant spore form. They are ready to wake up and get to work if they are fed properly, and not killed with pesticides or chemical fertilizers.
Let Your Soil Handle Bad Bugs & Weeds for You!
Because good microbes will win always the day, you wont ever have to worry about bad fungus or bad bugs killing your lawn. By creating the right soil conditions, you will nourish a field of lush grass where most weeds won't grow.
No Green Thumb Required! Anybody Can Do This.
It only takes a day of your time to set up your soil-based lawn care system so you can start feeding the soil microbes. After that, you'll actually start to save time and money by working with your backyard ecosystem instead of fighting against it.
Save Water by Increasing the Efficiency of Your Soil
You won't just save time and money becoming the envy of the neighborhood, you'll use less water too!
By turning the soil in your yard into a carbon sponge teeming with microbial life, you'll increase its capacity to retain water. This means your lawn will stay greener during during droughts.
And because you're not forcing growth with synthetic chemicals, you won't need to cut the lawn as often.
Good soil health results in steady, even growth across the entire lawn. So you'll have less troubleshooting to do and less reseeding of problem areas to worry about.
If You Do The Work, We Guarantee You'll See the Results!
Our mission is to turn lawns from an environmental problem into a climate change solution. We do this by giving you the tools impress your neighbours with a beautiful lawn, without harmful chemicals or wasted water. All while drawing carbon out of the atmosphere and into the cells of the microscopic critters that will be doing all the work. That's why we promise that if you put in the effort and follow the simple steps outlined in the course and you're not happy we'll refund your fees.
Show Me How to Fix My Lawn!Here's what you'll learn...
Soil Health for Beginners
What's in your dirt, and how does soil composition affect the quality & quantity of all that grows up top?
Introduction to Plants & Soil
Learn about grasses, annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees, and how the health of your soil impacts them all!
The Biology of Grass 101
Explore the different parts of a grass plant and discover how they all work together to create a healthy lawn.
Identify Your Grass Species
What grass is most common in your climate zone, and what's the best species to plant in your sunny vs. shady areas?
Learn How to Mow Like A Pro
Are you getting the most out of your mower? Learn about mulching mowers, sharpening blades, optimal cutting length and more.
The World of Watering
Learn how much water your lawn really needs, how to optimize your sprinkler benefits, and when watering does the most good for your grass.
Feeding Your Soil Microbes
Optimize your soil to stimulate the growth of mycorrhizal fungi by adding new spores or feeding dormant ones waiting to get to work.
Nurturing Your Grass
Discover which inputs directly stimulate growth and when to use or avoid them, and learn when and where you need to seed to get results.
Eliminating Thin Patches
Get rid of those bare spots once and for all by figuring out what the problem is and taking effective remedial action.
Dealing With Bugs & Fungus
Learn about the most common lawn-killing fungi, grubs, and creepy crawlies, and how to make your lawn inhospitable for them.
What To Do About Weeds
What do the weeds in your yard have to tell you about the health of your soil? Discover why unwanted plants move in and what you can do about it.
Your Lawn as a Climate Solution
Get nerdy about the soil carbon cycle so that when your neighbors stop to gape at your gorgeous lawn, you can explain that you're a climate champion and a lawn care pro!
Plus bonus materials...
Get ongoing, expert support, remedial action specials and lawn care tips throughout the growing season.
Yes! Show me how to fix my lawn!Meet Mark MacKenzie, Your Organic Lawn Care Mentor
Greening Lawns Without Toxic Chemicals Since 1988
Mark started a lawn care company decades ago that eliminated the use of chemicals and pesticides. He spent years refining the methods, tools and inputs needed to achieve fantastic results without environmentally destructive lawn care practices.
As President of the Organic Landscape Alliance in his home province of Ontario, he became a key member of a lobby group to ban the use of certain chemicals and pesticides in residential lawn care. Their campaign was successful! Bill 64 was passed in Ontario, and since 2008, the cosmetic use of pesticides was banned province-wide.
Having recently sold his service businesses in Ontario and Florida, Mark is pleased to offer a Do-It-Yourself course that anybody can implement on their own paradise, taking advantage of his extensive knowledge and experience using natural and soil-enhancing methods.
Mark lives in Ontario with his wife Kathy, where they also run an organic vegetable hobby farm and experiment on ways to use animals and soil amendments to enhance soil carbon capture and storage as a climate change solution.
Frequently Asked Questions...
Aren't most chemical lawn care products safe, effective and easy to use?
Without chemicals, how can I prevent weeds and bugs from wrecking my lawn?
I can barely grow mold on old cheese. Can I really become a lawn care expert?
How does improving the health of my soil remove carbon from the atmosphere?
When is the best time to start my Soil First Lawns program?
What if I follow your advice and don't see any improvement in my lawn?
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