Community Success Stories

The 2026 Fall Tree & Native Plant Sale distributed 5396 native plants (potted) and 3230 conifer seedlings to 401 customers throughout our region! WCCD staff, Master Rain Gardener partners, and over 53 volunteers made the event a smooth success getting more plant diversity into our home landscapes.

Read on for an update from the Michigan Conservation Stewardship for Farmers Project (MCSFP). This program supports farmers in Washtenaw, Wayne, Monroe, Lenawee, and Hillsdale counties were invited to apply to receive monetary awards to put towards on-farm conservation, farm management and marketing-related expenses. To date, the program has almost 60 applicants and has delegated over $600,000 in funds.

Fourteen years ago, when we bought our house, we had exactly one milkweed plant in our rock landscape bed. It was weedy, scraggly, easy to overlook, but I saw it.
We didn't do anything heroic. We just didn't pull it.