Darke Soil & Water Conservation District

11/03/2026

Join us for a night of celebration. RSVP is required for this FREE event! Call 937.548.1715 ext. 3 to register.

10/07/2026

Join us to celebrate this year's conservation accomplishments and honor our award winners! Featuring a pizza buffet, assorted appetizers and desserts. RSVP is required for this FREE event!

09/24/2026

To our wonderful community of pollinator supporters: Darke SWCD will not be collecting milkweed seeds this fall.

The Ohio Pollinator Habitat Initiative is unfortunately facing a staff shortage and won't be able to process seeds this season. We plan to update everyone again next autumn regarding future collection efforts.

Thank you so much to everyone who has gathered and donated seeds in past years—your hard work makes a real difference for Ohio’s pollinators! 🦋 We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

08/28/2026

H2Ohio is a win for farmers. 🏆

Farmer Jeff Duling, from Putnam County, Ohio, shares his success with agricultural practices promoted by the program and hopes for its funding to continue.

👉 Read more about Jeff’s story: https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/ohio/stories-in-ohio/duling-celebrates-h2ohio-successes/?en_txn1=s_fbo.reg_mw.x.x

📸: Farmer Jeff Duling by David Ike.

08/26/2026

Attention Darke County 3rd & 4th grade educators! 🍎

Bring farm-to-table learning to your school this year! Darke SWCD, Darke FSA, and Darke County Farm Bureau are teaming up to offer our hands-on Ag in the Classroom visits.

It takes just 30 to 45 minutes, and we supply everything—including the ingredients for our popular Farm-to-Table Trail Mix activity!

See the attached flyer for details, and grab a spot on our schedule using the link below:
🔗 https://forms.gle/trhr2Ftc6skt6Pig7

08/25/2026

Fourth-grade teachers: Want to help us test a new way to teach one of the biggest stories in Miami Valley history? 🌊📚

The Miami Conservancy District is working with Field in Sight Consulting to develop a new Great 1913 Flood Curriculum for fourth-grade classrooms — and we’re looking for Miami Valley teachers to help pilot test it.

The curriculum connects the story of the Great Flood of 1913 and our region’s response to multiple Ohio fourth-grade science and social studies standards, giving students a chance to explore local history, watersheds, flooding, engineering and the decisions that shaped the Miami Valley we know today.

Pilot teachers will:

* Attend a training on Thursday, September 17, from noon–3/3:30 p.m.
* Review and test three lessons
* Complete a feedback sheet to help us make the curriculum as useful as possible for teachers and students
* Receive a $125 Amazon gift card for completing the review
* And — because we think learning is better when you can see it for yourself — tour Huffman Dam as part of the training!

Training will be held at the Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center.

Interested? Contact [email protected] to schedule a brief phone or video interview.

Once completed, the curriculum will be available FREE to educators.

Know a fourth-grade teacher who would be great at this? Please share this post or tag them below.

We can’t wait to see this story come to life in Miami Valley classrooms.

08/17/2026

Bring a lawn chair and prepare to receive the information needed to care for your pond. W**d identification will also be offered. Bring your samples.
Event will be held at Overholser Farms located at 8940 Horatio Harris Creek Rd, Bradford, on Tuesday, August 18th from 6:30pm to 8pm.
For more information, please contact Caden Buschur at 937-548-5215, or email [email protected]

08/12/2026

We are so grateful to the Darke County Foundation and their donors for this funding! It will help our mission to provide Conservation Education to the youth of Darke County! THANK YOU!!

The Darke County Foundation hosted its annual community grant program, awarding funds to 67 non-profit organizations that serve Darke County residents. Congratulations to these deserving groups that provide meaningful programs and services in our community!
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Shelby & Darke County, Brethren Retirement Community, Darke County Center for the Arts, Garst Museum and The National Annie Oakley Center, EverHeart Hospice, Final Bow Center for Children's Performing Arts, Darke County Parks, Greenville City Schools, Murals of Greenville, Ohio, Illumination Festival, New Madison Public Library, Ohio Wave Fastpitch, The House that Lulu Built, Tri-Village Local Schools, Versailles Exempted Village School District, Wayne HealthCare