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Detention pond in Antioch converted to wildflower meadow in pilot to help pollinators and cut HOA mowing costs
Summary
Evergreen Infrastructure and a local pastor cooperated to convert a detention pond at St. John Missionary Baptist Church into a seeded native wildflower meadow intended to support pollinators and reduce mowing; presenter cautioned that dead vegetation must be removed after first frost to avoid nutrient export.
At a Cumberland River Compact event, Van Holdom, owner of Evergreen Infrastructure, described a pilot project converting a detention pond at St. John Missionary Baptist Church into a native wildflower meadow to create pollinator habitat and reduce HOA mowing costs.
"If we can figure out a way to get this to work, what I'm gonna do is start promoting this to HOAs because they're paying a ton of money to get their detention ponds mowed all summer long," Holdom said, describing a trial he conducted at the church after the HOA and…
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