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Comparative root development in Spence Nursery vs. other growers’ plants; highlights benefits of open bottom pots and mycorrhizal inoculant.

2025 Native Plant Sale

Order forms with cash or check are due to the office by April 24. Plants will be available for pick up on May 8th.

Stylized bee with a bulb, text: "KEEP THE LIGHTS ON POLLINATORS" and "Fireflies, Hummingbirds, Butterflies...Oh My!"

Keep the Lights on Pollinators Grant

The Decatur, Franklin, and Ripley County SWCDs received a Clean Water Indiana Grant to help local landowners install pollinator habitats, replace invasive shrubs and educate on the importance of native pollinator habitats.

An advertisement for a "Rain Barrel & Compost Workshop" with images of compost and a blue barrel.

Rain Barrel & Composting Workshop

In 2016 the Decatur County SWCD partnered with Decatur County Solid Waste Management and Purdue Extension Decatur County to host workshops on the benefits of rain barrels and the do's and don'ts. Attendees then took home a rain barrel, complements of the hosts.

Map of Salt-Pipe Creek Watershed with labeled towns, roads, and color-coded sub-watershed areas.

Salt-Pipe Creek Watershed Project

The Salt-Pipe Creek Watershed Project, with assistance from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) and the Decatur and Franklin County Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs), has secured funds to help you put conservation on your land. The Salt-Pipe Creek Watershed Management Plan was completed and approved in July 2019 and this cost-share program will help address some…