Healthy Yards
What is the Rye Healthy Yard Program?
The Rye Healthy Yard Program (RHYP) promotes awareness about the health and environmental benefits of natural landscaping practices in our community. Learn how to transform your yard into a safe, thriving habitat—for people, pets, and pollinators—and take the Rye Healthy Yard Pledge. Full details and Pollinator Pathway information are included below.
“Initiate an awareness campaign to educate homeowners about the harmful effects of pesticide/fertilizer use on lawns, while offering natural, safe alternatives”
Healthy is Good!
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Rye is home to many families; young children are especially vulnerable to the effects of chemicals and other pollution.
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As part of the Blind Brook Watershed, our storm water directly impacts an important estuary that supports all kinds of wildlife.
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Natural yard care can be less expensive than conventional yard care. Get off the spray & pay treadmill and buy only what you need, when you need it.
Pollinator Pathways Healthy Yards Pledge
Creating an outdoor space that is beautiful, safe and healthy is easy to do! Natural landscaping protects not only your own family but also protects the local biodiversity. Join an expanding network of properties in Rye and beyond that are establishing pollinator-friendly habitats and food sources for bees, butterflies, and other pollinating insects and wildlife.
Complete the Rye Sustainability Committee’s Pollinator Pathway Healthy Yards pledge and commit to healthy yard best practices to qualify for and receive a free Pollinator Pathway-Healthy Yard sign.
Click here for a printable PDF version of the pledge.
Make the Pledge!
Nearly 140 households and the following organizations have made the healthy yard pledge. You can too. Complete the pledge below and get your free sign today!
