SECOND HELPINGS
Herbs for Spicing up the Sauce
Location: 1121 Southeastern Ave.
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Project Description: Keep Indianapolis Beautiful worked with the Earth House Collective to install a landscape on their grounds that is both beautiful and functional. We planted a mostly native landscape to provide habitat and food for birds and insects but also demonstrated the responsible use of non-aggressive, non-natives to provide additional color and structure in the garden. We created a protected outdoor dining area with a crushed limestone patio. We worked with two incredible landscape architects Nick Oskay and Josh Anderson who developed a comprehensive masterplan for the Earth House grounds. This masterplan was used by the Earth House staff to successfully secure a United Water grant to install a new pervious pavement parking lot in 2012. We planted 5 trees, numerous shrubs, grasses and perennials, a limestone retention wall and dry creek beds that double as drainage swales. We will continue to work with the Earth House in 2012 with the goal of integrating graphically pleasing educational signage, vertical gardens that utilize every available inch of space, seating and local art. In addition, we helped to foster a relationship with Big City Farms who will be picking up 5 gallon buckets of food waste to compost at a nearby farm site.
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