Keeping Tennessee's water clean, one yard at a time.
We call it a Tennessee Yard Done Right — a yard that is in harmony with Tennessee’s native flora, soil and topography.
Tennessee Yards & Neighborhoods (TYN) is a University of Tennessee program in partnership with the Tennessee Valley Authority that advises residents on how to maintain a beautiful, hardier landscape while conserving and protecting our water supply. We work with individuals and neighborhood associations, developers, contractors and landscapers to improve landscaping practices so that topsoil, fertilizers, pesticides and other pollutants don't wash into the streams.
You don't have to be an expert gardener or landscaper to create a Tennessee Yard Done Right. All it takes is a willingness to learn and a desire to build a beautiful yard that helps protect Tennessee’s environment.
The Tennessee Yards & Neighborhoods program is based on nine principles:
- Right plant, right place
- Manage soils and mulches
- Appropriate turf grass management
- Water efficiently
- Use fertilizer appropriately
- Manage yard pests
- Reduce stormwater runoff and its pollutants
- Provide for wildlife
- Protect water’s edge
Read more
to learn why this approach to yard management makes sense. Y
ou'll spend less time, labor and money while protecting our streams and water quality. A Yard Done Right is right for you
and our environment.
If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in the water. Loren Eisley