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We need your help to save the Beavercreek Native Plant Demonstration Garden. The garden was designed by DAWO member and owner of Deeply Rooted Landscapes Kara Maynard and was installed with the help of DAWO members in spring of 2019. The original plan was for Beavercreek Parks and Recreation to take over maintenance once the garden was established. Then the COVID pandemic struck and Beavercreek was unable to hire the seasonal workers needed to maintain it. DAWO volunteers cared for the garden until fall of 2022 when we turned it over to Beavercreek. Management in 2023 was limited, but in late summer, a new volunteer stepped up. She was initially unfamiliar with native plants but has been learning as she cares for the garden. She has been doing a good job, but it is a large area for just one person to manage. This spring the weeds exploded; the garden is now overgrown and in dire need of care.

We would love to save the garden, especially given the recent emphasis on native plants in the landscape in Beavercreek and its new lawn ordinance. We would like to do a one-time intervention to help clean out the garden and make it presentable. Beavercreek’s new Parks and Recreation Operations Supervisor Allison Bush looks on native plants favorably. Our intervention at this time would allow Allison time to develop a more sustainable approach to maintaining the garden.

We are scheduling a work session on Friday from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. Please join us to help save this beautiful garden. Bring gloves and your own tools. You can also bring pots and soil as there will be errant seedlings that you can take home.

A City of Beavercreek volunteer liability release form is required and will be available on site or email us to request a copy. Questions? Email us at [email protected].

Beavercreek Station
1153 N. Fairfield Rd.
Beavercreek, OH 45432