The redbud tree is one of the species available in the Homeowner Packet in the 2012 tree sale.

The 2012 Franklin Soil and Water Tree and Fish sale has begun. There are even more new choices to help you put conservation practices on your land.  Several new packets are available this year including a Fall Color packet to brighten your landscape, a Homeowner’s Packet with trees and shrubs for flowers, shade, and winter interest, a Bees & Butterflies packet to support our pollinators, and a Peach Tree packet. Yes, you can grow peaches in Ohio!

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Educators & Youth Leaders

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Teachers, did you know that you can receive continuing education credits through these fun and stimulating environmental education workshops?  Through a collaboration among Metro Parks and Delaware and Franklin Soil and Water Conservation Districts, four science-based workshops for educators will be held January through May 2012.

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Landowners

Butterflies on milkweed

One third of human food crops and 90% of flowering plants need animal pollinators for reproduction.  Pollinators include bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, birds and bats. Whether we realize it or not, each of us depends on pollinators to provide the wide range of foods we eat.  Abundant and healthy populations of pollinators can improve fruit set and quality, and increase fruit size.  On the farm, this improves production per acre.  In the wild, wildlife food sources increase.

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Municipalities

The interest was high for the Pollution Prevention and Good Housekeeping workshop that Martha Gilson, one of our urban conservationists, organized at the Franklin County Engineer’s facility.

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