Landscaping and Gardening Without Polluting the Bay - 8/12/14

By John Racanelli

Published August 11, 2014 at 8:24 PM EDT

Summer is prime time for gardening and sprucing up our lawns—but what we do to our yards impacts our waterways more than you might expect. As we go about planting this season’s flowers, trees, produce and herbs, it’s important to keep the health of our watershed in mind.

Here to discuss some eco-friendly landscaping tips today is Suzanne Etgen, coordinator at the Anne Arundel Watershed Stewards Academy.

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As chief executive officer, John Racanelli leads a team of 600 full and part-time employees and 1,000 volunteers in pursuing the National Aquarium’s mission to inspire conservation of the world’s aquatic treasures. More than 1.5 million people annually visit the Aquarium’s venue in Baltimore, Maryland, while millions more are touched by the Aquarium’s education programs, outreach activities, social media campaigns and conservation initiatives.

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