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Discover the beauty and satisfaction of easy green living. Reduce mowing, improve tree and shrub health, reduce invasive pests indoors and out, reclaim weed patches and neglected acres, and enjoy wildlife without wildlife headaches. Brighten and diversify your personal habitats.

Beyond Turf™ delivers Integrated Habitat Management™. We are your Habitat Coach™, Your life coach for the living things around you™. We help you manage home and business habitats; your outdoor landscapes and interior spaces, wherever you live, work, or play. Living things are beautiful, enjoyable, and more… Living things are therapeutic when managed well. Some can become annoying and costly pests when managed poorly. We can help.

Our constellation of services assemble landscape, wildlife, and pest solutions for diverse clients. Our innovative service constellation features four stars, Natural Landscapes Solutions™, Ecological Wildlife Solutions™, Invasive Pest Solutions™, and Tree Health Pro™ Our guide star, Habitat Coach™, illuminates insights and technical knowledge, guidance and choices you need to help you achieve comfort and enjoyment in your outdoor and indoor habitats, your lifescape. Our constellation illuminates integration opportunities and synergies that bring improved effectiveness and value to clients seeking sustainable solutions for personal habitats and personal living choices.

Beyond Turf™ encompasses more than the geography of lifescapes. Beyond Turf™ is a philosophy for enriched living and the practice of living smart amidst natural beauty.

Habitat Coaching™ aims to gain relief for clients frustrated by landscape and home habitat challenges, reducing personal stress, reducing unnecessary ecological impacts of home and business habitats, indoors, outdoors, and beyond turf.

Beyond Turf™ assists clients with integrating formal landscape elements with informal elements, and through controlled transition to adjacent wild spaces. Our clients have used terms like “controlled wild” to describe recovered spaces beyond turf and formal landscaping. Beyond Turf™ assists clients in their efforts to remove or control wildness, or to re-wild select areas of home and business landscapes. We help you manage your lifescape: Control disheveled wild spaces or re-wild bland spaces. Attract and enjoy wildlife. Control pest insect and nuisance wildlife problems indoors and outdoors. Integrate your human habitats with natural habitats, near and far…

Beyond Turf™ helps clients achieve their visions for green human spaces in natural places, whether town lots, suburban lots, rural lots, or commercial farmscapes.

Beyond Turf™, Habitat Coach™, and Integrated Habitat Management™ are service marks and trade marks for brands owned by BCG LLC, a private for-profit business headquartered in central Ohio. Today, under our brand, Beyond Turf™, we are perfecting a palate of services supporting Integrated Habitat Management™ through Habitat Coaching™ offering value and utility for property owners, property managers, and others in central Ohio and beyond. Our Long Range Plan includes growth and expansion into additional markets in North America.

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Invasive species footprint

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How big is your invasive species footprint, does that really big shoe fit?

Invasive garlic mustard, a garden green gone wild

Human habitats, indoors and outdoors, are being invaded by aliens, alien plants and animals from overseas. Many foreign plants and animals are introduced to human habitats in North America, intentionally and unintentionally. Many become established and spread aggressively, these are invasive species.

Beyond Turf™ helps clients shrink their invasive species footprint, we

manage your landscape invaders.

Invasive species out compete local native plant and animal species. A common example in central Ohio, garlic mustard was introduced to North America long ago as a garden green. It remains popular among herb and greens gardeners today. Garlic mustard has spread from abandoned gardens for more than a Century and has claimed thousands of acres woodlands, bottomlands, and field margins.

Garlic mustard and other aggressive exotic plants out compete colorful native spring wildflowers of many kinds.

Garlic mustard’s invasive success is attributed to allelopathy; the release of chemicals that suppress growth of other plants. Garlic mustard releases AITC (allyl isothiocyanate) into the soil. AITC reduces uptake of soil resources by disrupting beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) associated with native plant roots. AMF increases micronutrient mineral uptake at least five fold and doubles the uptake of water in forest plants.

Invasive plants like garlic mustard reduce our enjoyment of our landscapes, Beyond Turf™. We  help clients keep plants in their place.

Take back your landscape!

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