The Principal Aims of Nature Turf, Inc.
Our Mission:
"To support our communities in their transition to non synthetic land cares practices and create a higher standard for land care practices through the Nature Turf Guarantee."
Our Goals:
To foster and promote the practice of non synthetic land care practices through innovated programs, better efficacy and warranted results.
To provide opportunities for education in all aspects of non synthetic land care practices and make products available to all channels to the market including perceived and un perceived competitors.
To establish and promote guidelines, standards and specifications for all aspects of non synthetic land care practices.
To establish procedures for non synthetic land care practitioners.
To establish and develop a means for the exchange of information and ideas between the public and the non synthetic land care industry.
NTI Land Care Standard is the design, construction and maintenance of landscapes according to the practices prescribed in this document. NTI Land Care Standard excludes the commercial production of food and fiber, and focuses predominantly on ornamental and recreational landscapes, and predominantly in urban areas.
NTI Land Care Standard aims to achieve its overall landscape goals through the use of practices and products that preserve and enhance the health of complete ecosystems, and the quality of life within urban environments.
The principal aims of NTI Land Care Standard are:
- To work with natural systems and processes rather than seeking to dominate them.
- To encourage and enhance biological cycles within landscapes, involving micro-organisms, soil flora and fauna, plants and animals.
- To optimize and maintain the long term biological activity of soils.
- To practice the responsible use of water, and the protection of water resources.
- To optimize air quality and circulation in the soil, water and atmosphere in support of all life forms.
- To use, as far as possible, renewable, biodegradable and recycled resources from local sources and to minimize waste.
- To work as much as possible within closed systems with regard to organic matter and nutrient cycling.
- To avoid or minimize all forms of pollution in the establishment and care of landscapes.
- To avoid or minimize all forms of pollution in the establishment and care of landscapes.
- To ensure biological diversity within urban landscapes
- To consider the wider social and ecological impacts of urban landscapes and the practices and products used to create and maintain them.
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