Wetland Restoration and Construction - A Technical Guide

05/27/2024

Heart & Soil Garden Festival
Carl D. Perkins Community Center
Morehead, KY 40351
June 1st, 2024 10:00am to 4:00pm

Schedule for Presenters
10:30-11:15 - “Creating a Vernal Pond for Your Landscape” presented by Tom Biebighauser, Wetland Restoration and Training
11:30-12:15 - “Plants and their Fungal Friends”, presented by Geoff Gearner, Morehead State University Biology Professor.
1:00 - 1:45 - “Butterfly Gardens” presented by Joanna Kirby, Garden Club of Kentucky, Inc.
2:00 - 2:45 - “Backyard Birds and How to Attract them” presented by Steve Bonney, retired Biologist for the Kentucky Division of Forestry.
3:00 - 3:45 - “Creating a Raised-Bed Garden” presented by Amanda Potter, Extension Agent, UK Cooperative Extension Service.

Workshop 1: Nantucket Style Salt Cellar/Herb Storage Jar will require 2-3 hours. Participants will weave over a repurposed yogurt jar to make a unique stove side salt cellar or presentation storage jar for dried dipping herbs. The container will have a wooden base, reed staves, Hamburg weaver, and bamboo lid. The cost will be $25.00 and the class limit is 10.

Workshop 2 will involve decoratively painting a wooden Bluebird Box suitable for immediate occupancy by these beautiful birds. Paints will be provided. The limit for this activity is 20 and the cost will also be $25.00.

Reservations for workshops are recommended by calling or texting Dee at 606-356-6445.

We have Meg’s Culinary Kitchen and The Bean Bag Coffee Truck on site. Please visit the food trucks for your refreshment and lunch needs.

Crafts for kids will be available throughout the day.

We encourage you to please visit our many vendors. They have a wide range of items for sale ranging from jewelry, pottery, herbs and seeds, to “Handy Hoes”.

05/21/2024

12/23/2013

These photos show three-new ephemeral wetlands we built on Tom Fitton's Farm near Oxford, Ohio. The wetlands were built from December 18-20, 2013 and filled with water from a storm on December 21. It was necessary to remove 6-inches of snow from each site to build each wetland. These photos were taken by Tom Fitton.

09/04/2013

We restored these wetlands in March, 2013 on the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico by using the compacted clay liner technique. Todd Rawlinson took these photographs while visiting the site the first week of September, 2013.

07/21/2013

Animals find constructed wetland near Wilcox, Arizona

05/08/2013

Daniel Boone National Forest

03/27/2013

The Ruidoso Free Press in New Mexico published this article about the Blue Lake Wetland Restoration Project we recently completed on the Lincoln National Forest:
http://www.ruidosofreepress.com/view/full_story/22071969/article-Three-years-to-fund--eight-days-to-build?instance=featured_news

Wildlife wetlands in Lincoln National Forest

02/25/2013

These emergent wetlands were built using the groundwater technique from construction fill near Carr Fork Lake on land managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

02/14/2013

Showing a new emergent wetland restored in Scott County, Kentucky on land owned by St. John's Parish

01/05/2013

Jason Jennings, Forest Soil Scientist for the Francis-Marion-Sumter National Forest built these wetlands in the fall of 2012 on National Forest System land in Newberry County, South Carolina using the techniques described in Wetland Restoration and Construction - A Technical Guide

10/06/2012

"Rain gardens, wetlands better for storm water" is the title of a story published by The Morehead News on October 5, 2012: http://themoreheadnews.com/local/x1149569386/Rain-gardens-wetlands-better-for-storm-water

    Diverting rainwater into rain gardens and wetlands rather than storm sewers is better for people and the environment.   

08/30/2012