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County updates soil-health initiatives: pocket prairie, soil-quality restoration, right-of-way sampling
Summary
County staff reviewed three soil-health efforts'a reimbursable soil-quality restoration program, a pocket-prairie planting program, and a pilot right-of-way soil-sampling study. Programs use a mix of county sustainability funds and partnerships with Master Gardeners, SWCDs and local contractors.
Johnson County staff briefed supervisors on a cluster of soil-health programs on Jan. 15 aimed at improving local soils and supporting outreach.
The lede: The county now bundles three efforts under "Johnson County Soil Health": the Soil Quality Restoration (SQR) reimbursement program, a new Pocket Prairie program that supplies native plants to homeowners, and a right-of-way soil-sampling pilot to track long-term soil-health changes.
Program details: The SQR program (funded with a $30,000 Sustainability Energy Reinvestment Fund…
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