Great Benefits of Bioswales
If you have a drainage swale across your property, need to move water to or from a rain garden, are concerned about water quality, local flooding issues, wildlife, and providing [...]
Upcoming Rain Garden Workshops
As the saying goes, “April showers bring May flowers”, and this Spring certainly hasn’t disappointed in that regard. An important project for creating habitat and addressing drainage issues is implementing [...]
Indianapolis Public Library + SWCD = Cover Crop Seed Library
WOULD YOU LIKE TO VOLUNTEER? Cover Crop Seed Packing Tuesday, May 19, 6 to 8 p.m. Central Library - Riley Meeting Room (located on Floor 2 - Atrium) The Indianapolis [...]
Celebrate Soil Stewardship Week!
The Marion County Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD), in partnership with the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD), is celebrating the 71st Annual Stewardship Week from April 26 to [...]
Monitoring and Project Management Requirements
By Rob Kendall, Urban Conservationist For construction sites disturbing an acre or more of soil, there are monitoring and project management requirements to fulfill. To ensure implementation standards (CSGP page [...]
SWCD Demo Garden Native Planting
By Kevin Allison, Soil Health Specialist At the Marion County SWCD Demonstration Garden, fifteen growing beds of vegetables and cover crops are supported by a native planting designed [...]
New Year’s Resolutions for Your Land
By Julie Haxton Farr, Resource Conservationist We are well into the first quarter of the new year. Many of us have already given up on most of our New Year’s [...]
CSGP Inspector Qualifications & Continuing Education
By Robert Kendall, Urban Conservationist The qualification for inspecting Construction Stormwater General Permit (CSGP) sites is to become a certified trained individual(or Qualified Person). Trained individuals are educated on [...]
2025 Friend of Extension
By Kevin Allison, Soil Health Specialist The Marion County Soil and Water Conservation District is the proud recipient of the Purdue Extension - Marion County 2025 Friend of Extension [...]
Join Us for our Fall Workshop at Indy Urban Acres
Our fall workshop is off to a great start and coming up on Friday 10/24 we have the culmination of a workshop series with Indy Urban Acres funded by our [...]