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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...

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...

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...

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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