KENSINGTON — Resident Felicia Motherway was driving by the newly built Sawyer Park a couple of years ago when she saw "that stupid yellow sign" advising park users that pesticides were being applied to the sports fields. The yellow sign made Motherway see red.
"I realized that my kids — and thousands of other kids — would be using these fields. That it would be affecting the wetlands, the soil," she said.
Motherway and her husband, Mike, didn't let that happen. With the support of the town, they have taken the park in a different direction — that of all-organic lawn and field care. They've even found other people to pay for it, with their Adopt An Organic Field program.
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