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Permeable Pavers Benefit Your Property and Our Environment
PERMEABLE DRIVEWAY Thinking about installing a new patio, sidewalk, or driveway? You’d be doing yourself and your community a big favor by considering permeable pavers. As you might expect from its name, permeable pavers make it easy for water to drain through or...
Help Conserve Water by Creating a Rain Garden or Dry Creek Bed
Rain Gardens: Answering the Rallying Cry, “Slow it, spread it, sink it!” With climate change, we are seeing more rain coming at one time, more massive storms, more extended storms, and more frequent storms. Damage to homes and landscapes is increasing and it demands...
Smart Watering Starts Before You Turn On the Hose
Smart watering guidelines usually offer advice on how often and when to water your lawn and garden in order to keep things green while being eco-friendly. While this advice is important, using water-smart landscape design, you can further lighten your footprint and...
Proper Watering During Hot, Dry Weather Crucial to Healthy, Weed-Free Properties
Proper watering will keep your lawn healthy during the hot summer months while staying eco-friendly way PROPER WATERING WILL KEEP YOUR LAWN HEALTHY DURING THE HOT SUMMER MONTHS WHILE MINIMIZING WATER USE. Watering is a tricky balance for eco-conscious homeowners. We...
Why Are There Weeds In My Lawn? How Do I Get Rid of Them Naturally & Safely?
An organic lawn care program works best when we have the time to create a healthy soil environment in which grass can thrive and weeds won’t grow. Weeds are one of the more vexing aspects of lawn care. What they are and why they exist are the keys to getting rid of...
Watering Guide
To water or not to water? Caring for your plants cannot be quantified to a specific formula. It requires some observation and judgement depending on the plant, soil, weather, exposure, and time of year. Below are some additional guidelines to help you care for...
Organic Soil Solutions to Improve Your Lawn
Organic Soil Solutions to Improve Your Lawn At Greenwise, we are all about soil health (some would call us soil nerds!). The microbiome in a lawn’s soil is the key ingredient to lush, lasting turf. To build your organic lawn, we have to start below the roots! Here’s a...
Greenwise Organic Lawn Care Announces Its Merger with The Green Team of Wisconsin
Greenwise Organic Lawn Care (Greenwise), a sustainability-focused lawn and landscape service provider serving the Chicagoland area, is excited to announce its merger with The Green Team of Wisconsin, Inc. (The Green Team). In its partnership with The Green Team,...
Clean Up Evanston!
Join Us this Earth Day to Help “Clean Up, Evanston!” Dear Evanston Friends, We love our home town, and we’re sure you do, too. So join us on April 22nd and participate in Evanston’s annual Earth Day and Arbor Day community clean-up event, “Clean up, Evanston!,” from 9...
Ridgeville Park’s Unity Soccer Festival
You knew we could find our way around a garden or your lawn, but I’m guessing you didn’t know we could make it happen on the pitch! We did it–some of us never played the game of soccer before (me), some of us not since 5th grade (Michelle), and a few ringers who are...
Becoming an Owner of the Wild Onion Food Co-op
In 2021, members of our Evanston community asked us to join the Wild Onion Market as an owner. We said yes! Why? Because we are an organic lawn care company that believes in lightening our footprint by providing safe approaches to caring for your lawn. It makes sense...
Repurposing Plants with the Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse
The Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse, Greenwise Organic Lawn Care, and the Kenilworth Clippers Garden Club are teaming up to save and repurpose plants. On Sunday, July 14, they combined forces to hold their first free plant giveaway in north Evanston. “We came up with...
Providing Free Snow Removal Service to a Neighbor in Need
Click here to read a recent article in the Evanston RoundTable about our free snow removal: Read Now
The Mayor’s Employer Advisory Council MEAC
As a next-door neighbor to ETHS (Evanston Township High School), we couldn’t be prouder to be a business partner with the Mayor’s Employer Advisory Council (MEAC). Its goal is to help those high school students who don’t have a clear path to higher education discover...
Sponsoring the Hinsdale Humane Society
Creating Safe Lawns for Dogs Greenwise is an organic lawn care company, so clearly we care about safe lawns for our environment. But, dogs are right up there, too! If you are a dog owner, you know your dog’s snout is always rooting around in the grass, sniffing out...
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