TurfMutt Foundation Shares 5 Methods to Get Outdoors This Autumn

Cooler climate and colourful landscapes make backyards and native parks perfect for household actions

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The TurfMutt Foundation is encouraging households to benefit from fall’s cooler temperatures and vivid surroundings by spending extra time in their very own backyards and native inexperienced areas. Outdoor exercise within the autumn months is not simply satisfying, getting exterior is linked to decrease stress, sharper focus, and higher total well being.

“Mulligan the TurfMutt and I enjoy this time of year when the air is crisp and the leaves are changing,” mentioned Kris Kiser, President and CEO of the TurfMutt Foundation. “You don’t have to travel far to find adventure. It’s right outside your door, and your dog will be more than happy to come along to all these activities.”

The TurfMutt Foundation provides these concepts for profiting from the season:

1. Become a Backyard Scientist: Download free (and enjoyable) academic supplies at turfmutt.com/education and switch your yard or native park into an outside STEM classroom.
2. Host a Fall Scavenger Hunt: Organize a seek for seasonal gadgets like colourful leaves, acorns, and feathers – or no matter is indicative of fall in your local weather zone.
3. Take within the Scenery: Walk or bike by your neighborhood or park to soak up fall foliage whereas anticipating migrating birds and wildlife.
4. Spend an Evening Under the Stars: Grab blankets, sizzling cocoa, and s’mores fixings to host a night in your yard round a firepit or unfold out a blanket to stare upon (and educate to children!) the constellations.
5. Make Yard Clean-up Fun: Turn backyard clean-up and fall bulb planting into video games or challenges for youths. Let children leap in leaf piles or conceal your canine’s favourite toy for a “treasure hunt.”

For extra enjoyable fall concepts and to learn to create a wholesome inexperienced house for households and pets, go to www.turfmutt.com.

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Media contact:
Debbi Mayster, Four Leaf PR on behalf of the TurfMutt Foundation
240-988-6243 | [email protected]

About the TurfMutt Foundation
TurfMutt, which celebrated its 15^th anniversary in 2024, was created by the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute’s (OPEI) TurfMutt Foundation and has reached greater than 70 million kids, educators and households since 2009. The Foundation is title sponsor of “Lucky Dog,” the Emmy Award-winning CBS broadcast tv present in assist of canine rescue and rehabilitation. Both TurfMutt spokesdogs have been rescue canines, and Mutt Mulligan is a solid character on the present, the place her “Mulligan Minute” segments educate viewers about the advantages of inexperienced house. In 2024, the Great Lawn at Louisville’s award-winning Waterfront Park on the Ohio River was renamed the TurfMutt Foundation Great Lawn as a part of a $1 million sponsorship. Championed by Mulligan the TurfMutt, and thru training companions corresponding to Scholastic, Discovery, Weekly Reader, and the USBGC Global Learning Lab, TurfMutt has taught college students and lecturers “save the planet, one yard at a time.” TurfMutt has been an training useful resource on the U.S. Department of Education’s Green Ribbon Schools, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Green Apple, the Center for Green Schools, the Outdoors Alliance for Kids, the National Energy Education Development (NEED) undertaking, Climate Change Live, Petfinder and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 2017, the TurfMutt animated video collection received the coveted Cynopsis Kids Imagination Award for Best Interstitial Series. More data at www.TurfMutt.com.

SOURCE TurfMutt Foundation