Volunteer your lawn for our soil quality restoration demonstration

The City of North Liberty in partnership with the Johnson County Soil & Water Conservation District is seeking a North liberty resident to volunteer their yard for a soil quality restoration demonstration project.
Is your local stream bank being robbed by a watery bandit? Help us catch this rainy thief by allowing us to improve your lawn. Here is your chance to learn all about soil quality restoration and how it can improve the health of your lawn, trapping that bandit in the bars of your healthy soil and yielding lush green, vibrant growth for years to come. We would like to demonstrate a combination of deep tine aeration and compost spreading, known as soil quality restoration, in order to increase the organic matter in your soil. This will increase the soils capacity to hold moisture which is a step toward alleviating flash flooding, water pollution and bank erosion.
The project will be subsidized with funds from JCSWCD and the City of North Liberty, but the homeowner will be responsible for choosing the contractor and funding the balance of the project not covered by the sponsors’ grants. The grants will cover a minimum of 2,500 square feet or a 50 × 50-foot area.
We are asking the homeowner to pick a date and a time during the first three weekends of May. The practice can be installed in two hours, so, for instance 9 to 11 a.m. or 1 to 3 p.m. The property selected must be in North Liberty city limits and be an owner occupied home that was constructed within the last 25 years.
If you are interested in being a candidate to participate in this exciting program, please contact Tracey Mulcahey at (319) 626-5712 or [email protected] as soon as possible. Deadline March 23. Please provide your name, address, and contact information.
A list, compiled by JCSWCD, of Johnson County Local Conservation Supplies and Contractor Services is available for download.