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 [...]
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 [...]
SWCD Bus to Farm Tours
The Marion County Soil and Water Conservation District is leveraging its Clean Water Indiana and North Central SARE grants to create bus trip experiences for growers, gardeners, and conservation [...]
SWCD Demo Garden April 28, 2025
Marion County Soil and Water Conservation District Demonstration Garden @ the Mayor's Garden Eagle Creek April 28, 2025 Update Kevin Allison, Soil Health Specialist 2025 Crop Plan Beds [...]
Cover Crop Cost Share
Marion County Soil and Water Conservation District has a 2025 cover crop cost-share program for Marion County backyard gardeners, community gardens, and urban farms! Funding will be awarded based [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]