Green Industries Best Management Practices (GI-BMP) Training

The syllabus runs through seven modules, from an introduction and overview to lawn and landscape care, irrigation, fertilizer and pesticide, and a closing review of local ordinances. This round of the Green Industries Best Management Practices course, offered by UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County, meets at Sarasota County Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources on Hummingbird Avenue, in Meeting Room 1. Its target is nonpoint-source pollution, the diffuse runoff that carries fertilizer and pesticide into waterways, and it is open to professionals in lawn, landscape, pest-control and public-grounds work as well as anyone curious about them. A lunch break is built into the day.