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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
World Soil Day, celebrated annually on Dec. 5, chose “Soil, Where Food Begins” as this year’s theme. Soil is a precious resource, and it will take a team effort to [...]
by Jerry Raynor, NRCS State Conservationist Have you ever seen white crusts on soil in Indiana? Yes, it is what you think. Soils can be salty. That’s because salts [...]
By John Hazlett, SWCD District Manager Every year around Thanksgiving I enjoy another tradition at home-brewing compost tea for my native trees and shrubs. Generally, I tend to land [...]
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 > [...]
by Kevin Allison, Soil Health Specialist Spring 2021 The SWCD Eagle Creek Demonstration Garden is an educational space for no-till gardening and soil health practices such as crop rotation, cover [...]
Today, March 23rd is National Ag Day, a day in which we join together to recognize the importance and contributions of agriculture to society. This year the theme is [...]