The Sherbrooke green team “la Patrouille Verte” kicked off its 14th year on Thursday afternoon, putting a focus on the city’s new lawn and pesticide rules. This past spring Sherbrooke adopted legislation that will heavily restrict the use of the vast majority of pesticides on lawns by 2017. In order to help smooth the transition to this new reality, the city has published and distributed an information booklet and is turning its summertime environmental task-force, the Patrouille Verte, to the task of teaching people about lawn health.
“The objective of the Patrouille Verte is the same as in years past,” said Christine Ouellet, the President of Sherbrooke’s Environment Commitee. “It is a measure of contact that goes directly to the citizens to inform them and sensitize them to good environmental practices.”
Read the full story in Friday’s Record.
