Principals of Organic Land Care
Organic Land Care is a sustainable ecological landscaping system that promotes and enhances biodiversity, biological cycles, and soil biological activity. It is based on minimal use of off-site inputs and on management practices that restore, maintain, and enhance ecological harmony and beauty in urban and suburban landscapes and gardens. “Organic” means landscaping with no synthetic pesticides of any kind (insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, etc.) and with no synthetic fertilizers or soil amendments.
Principal of Health
Organic land care
should sustain and enhance the health of soil, water, air, plant,
animal, human, and
planet as one and indivisible.
Principal of Ecology
Organic land care
should be based on ecological systems and cycles and should work with them, emulate them, and help sustain them.
Principal of Care
Organic land care
should be managed
in a precautionary
and responsible manner
to protect the health
and well-being
of current and future generations and the environment.
Principal of Fairness
Organic land care
should build on relationships that ensure fairness with regard to the common environment and life opportunities. Fairness is characterized by equity, respect, justice, and stewardship of the shared world, both among people and in their relationships to other living beings.