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Let's keep our city toxin free.

Let's keep our city toxin free.Let's keep our city toxin free.Let's keep our city toxin free.

Help us limit the use of harmful pesticides here in Hallowell.

Let's keep our city toxin free.

Let's keep our city toxin free.Let's keep our city toxin free.Let's keep our city toxin free.

Help us limit the use of harmful pesticides here in Hallowell.

a grassroots effort to

implement local restrictions on pesticide use

which will promote the health of all our citizens, pets, wildlife, and waterways by reducing our exposure to toxic chemicals used on our lawns and public spaces.

Who We Are

GROW GREEN & HEALTHY HALLOWELL (GGHH) is a coalition of concerned citizens working to promote the health of our growing children, adults, family pets, wildlife, pollinators, plants, aquatic life in The Kennebec River and Vaughn Brook Watershed, by reducing toxic pesticide use on our lawns & gardens, children’s sports fields, and public spaces.  


Pesticides are carried by run-off onto adjacent property and downhill into the Vaughan Brook Watershed and Kennebec River, and leach into the soil and water table. Pesticides also drift through the air, and are tracked into our homes on shoes.


The most Sustainable way to protect our residents and the environment is with a Land Management ordinance that reduces synthetic pesticide and fertilizer use (with exemptions for public health issues like infestations of deer tick or Brown Tail Moth) 


30 Maine municipalities have already enacted ordinances that restrict pesticide use!

They have led the way in choosing to protect their citizens and environment from toxic chemicals.

Why is it Important for Hallowell to do this?

Talking Points (pdf)

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Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children.


Dalton McGuinty

Our Values

Healthy Communities

Reduce exposure to toxic chemicals which are linked to an increasing number of serious

chronic and acute illnesses. 

A Vibrant Ecosystem

Prevent runoff and drift which impacts local aquatic life, pollinators, birds, soil microorganisms, and other critically important species.

Community Education

Give landowners the tools they need for responsible, safe, and effective stewardship of their property.

7 Steps to a healthy, green lawn...

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We need your help.

Do you support efforts to limit toxic pesticide use in Hallowell? Join our grassroots effort.

Grow Green & Healthy Hallowell

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