Eye Opener: Photo Essay

Ways Northland Country Club Has Gone "Green"

I decided to do my photo essay on showing all of the ways that Northland, the country club I work at, has helped by going green.  They have been taking many steps to help out the environment and I think that it should be recognized.  It is nice to see the local businesses helping the environment out. The grounds crew at Northland also has a website that talks about the ways they have been improving and going green. Just click here. 

Also at Northland a company has been testing the water run-off from the golf course to see what kind of chemicals it has in it. They have a couple of places throughout the course, including one on the 11th green, where it is tested often and since they have began to use organic fertilizers the results have changed, for the better, quite a bit. I wasn't able to get a picture though, because of all the snow. Also by using the organic fertilizers it allows the grass to naturally grow better and they have been able to reduce the amount of water they use out on the course.

I want to start off by letting everyone know that Northland has officially decided that they aren't going to use bottled water on the golf course.  My boss said that after I presented him with the facts of how bad it was for the environment he wouldn't allow it!

This is the machine that the grounds crew uses to make compost tea.  Compost tea is used as a fertilizer for the grass and plants.  By using this they reduce the use of other fertilizers that are harmful to the environment.  They have also been using other organic products to fertilize the grass.  

We also have organic liquor. I'm not sure what that all entails, but it's kind of cool.  We have organic wine as well.

These are the bins that we scrape the excess food into.  We have a compost pile and that is where all our food that we put into these bins goes.

These are the to-go cups that we use.  They aren't styrofoam and are more eco-friendly.  They break down at a faster rate.

These are the containers that we use for to-go food.  They are recyclable!