Phosphorus
Bill
On Dec. 16, 2010, Gov. Jennifer Granholm
signed legislation into law that will
eventually curb the application of lawn
fertilizer containing phosphorus in most
situations. House Bill 5368, introduced by
Rep. Terry Brown (D-Winsor Twp.), would
prohibit the use of phosphorus in lawn
fertilizer beginning Jan. 1, 2012, except to
correct a phosphorus deficiency, to
establish new turf grass or on a golf course
under certain circumstances. The bill
becomes Public Act 299 of 2010.
The new act also prohibits the application
of lawn fertilizer to turf less than 15 feet
from any surface water unless there exists a
continuous natural vegetative buffer of at
least 10 feet wide that separates the turf
from the water body or unless specific types
of equipment are used when applying the
fertilizer and the fertilizer is not applied
within three feet of the surface water.
ELECTIONS
This last fall Marie Garner, Marcia
Wentworth, Rolf Hudson and Kim Hamilton were
reelected to the board. Also elected were
Deb Briggs and Dave DeLeeuw. Welcome back
past members and welcome aboard new members.
Also we always need volunteers to help
out on the many functions and fund raisers
we have throughout the year. We could use
people on our many committee’s also.
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Talking In Their Sleep
“You think I am
dead,”
The apple tree said,
“Because I have never a leaf to show-
Because I stoop,
And my branches droop,
And the dull gray mosses over me grow!
But I’m still alive in trunk and
shoot;
The buds of next May
I fold away-
But I pity the withered grass at my
root.”
“You think I am dead,”
The quick grass said,
“Because I have parted with stem and
blade!
But under the ground,
I am safe and sound
With the snow’s thick blanket over me
laid.
I’m all alive, and ready to shoot,
Should the spring of the year
Come dancing here-
But I pity the flower without branch
or root.”
“You think I am dead,”
A soft voice said,
“Because not a branch or root I own.
I never have died, but close I hide
In a plumy seed that the wind has
sown.
Patient I wait through the long winter
hours;
You will see me again-
I shall laugh at you then,
Out of the eyes of a hundred flowers.
This poem was written by Edith M.
Thomas.
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WINTER 2011
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