Landscapers
Talk to your landscaper about Sustainable Practices
The village of Irvington strongly encourages its residents and landscapers who work in the village to adopt Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (LELE) practices on their property, providing a chemical-free landscape and enabling a mix of habitats for overwintering fauna. See more about this in our Healthy Yards page. However, for the areas where leaves must be cleared, using rakes or electric equipment is the sustainable and conscientious solution.
Healthy Yards and Perfect Earth offer guidance on interviewing landscapers and Healthy Yards offers a checklist for best practice discussions with your landscaper - just scroll down to find them. Print resources in Spanish here and here and pasted below too. Irvington Electric Landscaping Equipment Demonstration coming this Spring.
See more about Leaf Blowers here.
Support & Education for Landscapers:
Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA)
www.nofa.org
Ecological Landscape Alliance www.ecolandscaping.org
Native Plant Center www.sunywcc.edu/about.npc
Healthy Yards www.healthyyards.org
Leave Leaves Alone www.leaveleavesalone.org
AGZA American Green Zone Alliance www.agza.net
Cornell University Extension www.westchester.cce.cornell.edu/horticulture
Converting to Electric
See The Economics of Switching to Battery-Powered Leaf Blowers: A Cost Comparison.
Sustainable Landscaping Companies
We are compiling a list of landscaping companies servicing Irvington that offer sustainable services. To qualify, they should have electric equipment and demonstrate sustainable practices like leaf mulching. Taking courses with organizations like AGZA is a good indication. Please share recommendations with cbinns@irvingtonny.gov
Healthy Yards has a list of sustainable landscaping companies here. Further listings can be found at EcoLandscaping.org
Please note: we cannot vet claims made by landscaping companies. It is important that you discuss best practices with the companies directly.
All Electric Landcaping Companies
Ecoquip USA
Joseph Bulfamante and Son Landscaping
Electrocut
Green and Serene Lawn Care
Morano Landscape Garden Design LTD
Mow Green
Organic Ways and Means
Plan it Wild
Soto's Service
Spark Lawn care
Companies Offering Sustainable Solutions:
Aesthetic Landscape Care Inc.
520 Farragut Parkway, Hastings-on-Hudson
914-478-7320
Artscape Organic Care, LLC
49 Bouton Street East, Stamford
203-252-1954
Camilla Landscaping Design, LLC
30 Hardscrabble Heights, Brewster
203-790-9809
Green Jay Landscaping
222 Purchase Street #144, Rye
914-560-6570
TDK Landscape Inc.
41 Fisher Avenue, Tuckahoe
914-771-6802
Breath of Spring, LTD.
453 Pelhamdale Avenue, Pelham
914-738-3865