Bay-Friendly Tools & Resources

For Home Gardeners

• Bay-Friendly Gardening Workshop Series
• Bay-Friendly Garden Tour
• Bay-Friendly Garden Registration
• Bay-Friendly Nursery Outreach Program
Publication:
• Bay-Friendly Gardening: from your backyard to the Bay

For Landscape Professionals

• Landscaper Maintenance Training & Qualification Program
• Workshops for Landscape Design Professionals
Publications:
• Bay-Friendly Landscape Guidelines
• A Bay-Friendly Landscaping Guide to Grasscycling (also available in Spanish)
• A Bay-Friendly Landscaping Guide to Mulch

For Public Agencies

• Model policies and ordinances for civic & commercial landscapes
• Model Landscape Maintenance Specifications
• Bay-Friendly Scorecard standard for civic, commercial, multifamily and production home landscapes
• Tool box of materials to implement practices in the Bay-Friendly Landscape Scorecard such as: model soil specifications, sheet mulching details, plant legend template, and more.
• Third party rater system to evaluate new landscape design and construction based upon the Bay-Friendly scorecard.

For more information on existing Bay-Friendly tools and resources currently being implemented in Alameda County, visit www.BayFriendly.org.