Maximize Soil Cover
One of the four soil health principles is to keep the soil covered as much as possible. Mulches, cover crops, and even the vegetation of the crops themselves can [...]
Wildergarden – A Local Resource
A perspective on Wildergarden in Broad Ripple and its relationship with the Marion County Soil and Water Conservation District Guest blog by Julia Wilder of [...]
Rainscaping Education Program 2023
Join staff from Purdue Extension and Marion County SWCD for a Rainscaping workshop series starting Tuesday 10/3/2023. You'll learn how to plan, install and maintain rain gardens at your [...]
Indiana Cover Crop Tool for Small Farms and Gardens
The Indiana Cover Crop Tool for Small Farms and Gardens is an excel workbook to help small farmers, gardeners, and conservation planners make cover crop decisions and determine seeding [...]
Indiana Growers Trip to Rough Draft Farmstead
On May 23, 2023, thirty Indiana urban and small-scale vegetable farmers took a bus ride to Kentucky, where farmer Jesse Frost gave a tour of his soil health-centric Rough [...]
Soil Surveys
The USDA-NRCS National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) Web Soil Survey is a free, powerful online tool that allows us to draw a polygon around an area on a map and [...]
Spring 2022 Stream Steward Workshop
Join staff from the Marion County Soil and Water Conservation District and Friends of the White River for a Stream Steward Workshop to learn how to become a more [...]
52nd Annual Meeting of the Marion County Soil and Water Conservation District
Join the Marion County SWCD for our 52nd Annual Meeting! Due to COVID precautions we are going virtual again this year and are featuring a panel of local urban [...]
Eagle Creek Demo Garden Fall 2021
by Kevin Allison, Soil Health Specialist Fall 2021 This post demonstrates 3 strategies that I found to be particularly useful at the SWCD garden this year. Cereal Rye > [...]
Workshops for a Cleaner Waterway
Our district is teaming up with ROW (Reconnecting to Our Waterways), Kheprw Institute and The City League to offer Rain Garden and Rain Barrel Build workshops this summer! Made possible [...]