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 [...]
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 [...]
What are Stormwater Credits?
You may have wondered what the stormwater user fees are that appear on your spring and fall taxes & is there was a way to lower them? Stormwater user fees [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Why We Care About Concrete Washout
Concrete is one of the most-used substances in the world, second only to water. We use an astonishing 14 billion cubic meters per year of this common and [...]
Permaculture Template
Williams Creek Consulting and the Marion County SWCD came together to develop permaculture design templates for Indianapolis vacant lots. The project was funded by the National Association of Conservation District's [...]