Musquodoboit Valley Quality Sod

HEALTHY SOD AND THE ECOSYSTEM

GREEN for healthy lawn establishment
GREEN with environmental benefits

The benefits of our lawns to the environment are often overlooked. Turf is about much more than aesthetics. Healthy grown nursery sod creates an immediately mature lawn after installation.
For most of suburban Canada, it’s the foundation of the neighbourhood’s ecosystem.As noted by North America’s leading turf expert, Dr. Jim Beard, the chief scientist at the International Turf Institute:

“Because it’s around us every day, people don’t think about the fact that a healthy turf generates oxygen for improved air quality and controls runoff and erosion. Most homeowners don’t realize noise and air pollution are reduced in most suburban areas because the grass ecosystem serves as a natural filter for the environment. The scientific evidence clearly shows that a healthy suburban lawn is good for the environment.”

Specifically, Dr. Beard and other scientists say a healthy lawn provides the following environmental benefits:

* Cooling: Lawns have substantial cooling effect via evaporation.

* Clean air: Grass not only creates oxygen but improves the quality of the environment by removing pollutants and other particles from the atmosphere.

* Decomposes organic pollutants: Turf organisms are active in the decomposition of organic waste and hydrocarbons, which leads to soil improvement.

* Lessens global warming: Grass can absorb and sequester carbon dioxide gases.

* Noise filter: Grass and other ornamentals help absorb sound, potentially reducing noise pollution in some areas by 20 to 30 percent.

Always looking to provide quality and value to our consumer, Musquodoboit Valley Quality Sod has employed the Intergrated Pestiside Management (IPM) practice for a number of years. This IPM practice is a major step in our environmental efforts to provide all the natural benefits of sod to landscapes at the same time as virtually eliminating the need for pesticide interventives. And in our efforts at MVQS to always offer the most advanced nursery sod to the consumer, in summer 2009 we are introducing a new advanced turf-type tall fescues, RTF® Sod. RTF® is a patented nursery sod product available exclusively in Nova Scotia at Musquodoboit Valley Quality Sod. RTF® characteristics includes green environmental benefits such as self-repairing lateral root stem, water saving and high endophyte content for greater tolerance to drought and insects. RTF® is available for delivery in addition to our popular best-selling MVQS Kentucky Blue Sod and Economy Sod!

LAWN TURF ALSO PROVIDES BENEFITS TO THE ECONOMY AND OUR LIFESTYLE

• Economic:
  1. Reduce energy costs (heating and cooling)
  2. Improve property values (residential and business)
  3. Enhance beauty of buildings and communities — Aesthetic contribution
• Lifestyle:
  1. Reduce stress and improve productivity (workplace, schools)
  2. Introduce calming effects and reduced discomforts
  3. Improve life satisfaction and well-being:
     - Increase positive emotions
     - Improve general quality of life in urban settings
  4. Provide space for recreation
     - Enhance sport field safety
     - Encourage healthy active and passive lifestyle pursuits