06/07/2025
Compared to this same time last year, Community Backyards participation is up by 15% 🤩 Over 2,400 residents have participated this year already! If you haven't participated yet, you better do it soon in case we run out of rebate funding later in the season.
What is it? Community Backyards is our flagship educational reimbursement program. Residents in Franklin County, Ohio can take our free course to learn how our home and gardening habits are connected to the quality of our local waterways and stormwater runoff, and we give you information and tools on how you can help. You will learn "backyard conservation practices" including: rain barrels, rain gardens, native plants, composting, and low input lawncare practices. After you take the course, Franklin County residents can receive a voucher to get a rebate on the purchase one of those practices!
How can you participate? We have two ways. You can take the new, interactive online course anytime, or you can attend an upcoming in-person workshop. We have one Community Backyards Workshop - Maize Manor TONIGHT with The Urban Farm Church and Maize Manor United Methodist Church in North Linden taught by Columbus Garden School. If you didn't register, that's ok - just show up and sign in with the presenter to get a voucher afterwards!
Learn more and participate https://www.communitybackyards.org/participate
