Butler Soil & Water
Conserving our Natural Resources

2025 Newsletter Sponsorship

Do you have a local business that needs advertising? To purchase advertisement space in our quarterly newsletter for 2025, please fill out the 2025 Newsletter Sponsorship Form and mail it in to our office.

Completed forms due by Friday, January 24, 2025, to make it in the Winter Newsletter! If you have any questions at all please call (513) 887-3720 or email Sarah.Hill@bcohio.gov.

2025 Wildlife Garden Series

This year, we will hold the first two sessions indoors, then move outdoors for the summer and fall sessions. We hope that you can join us.

Registration: Registration is requested for this FREE series, to assist us with providing resources.

February 10: Creating an urban backyard habitat
At the Lane Library in Fairfield, 6:00 PM

Turning your yard into a habitat while still maintaining lawn.
Creating amphibian habitat.

April 14: Native plants for happy HOAs
At the Lane Library in Fairfield, 6:00 PM

Low maintenance native plants.
Creating pollinator hotels.

July 14: Garden Tour, focusing on urban issues for native plants
At the Miami Hamilton Campus Conservatory, 6:00 PM

Tour the gardens around the conservatory. If you arrive early, you can also visit inside the conservatory.
Learn about urban issues, such as road salt, that can be a hindrance to native plants.

October (Date TBD) Pawpaw Picnic
Oxford Township, 6:00 PM

What are pawpaw's and how to grow them.
What to make from the fruit.

BEST Volunteer Events

Be one of the BEST and join Butler SWCD's Butler Environmental Stewardship Team at one of our volunteer events throughout the year. We hold river cleanups, invasive plant removals, hold BioBlitzes, package milkweed seeds, and more.

January 16, 4 pm at Butler SWCD. Indoors packing seeds, making class kits, and other activities.
February 27, 4 pm in West Chester. Cutting willow stakes to be used for stream bank restoration projects. Rain date is in March.
March 22, 9 am - 12 noon. Invasive removal with the Fairfield Izaak Walton in Milford Township.
April 19, 9 am - 12 noon. Planting a rain garden at the new Morgan Township Park.

For a full list of this years projects, please visit our volunteer page.

Register

Registration is requested to help with supplies and to send info if an event is canceled due to weather. Events are also posted about a month prior on Miami and UC community service website if you are a student needing to document hours.

BEST Email List

To receive the monthly volunteer email, please sign up and check the volunteer box.

Butler SWCD YouTube Channel

Want to learn about Composting? Questions about pond management? Do you want to build a rain garden? Or are you interested in the wildlife that calls your backyard home? Butler SWCD's YouTube channel is a great resource for learning all about these topics, watching past workshops, and so much more!

Please check out our YouTube channel for many helpful and interesting videos.

Calendar of Events

Upcoming

2025 Board Meetings

2025 Butler SWCD Board of Supervisors meetings will be held on the second Tuesday of each month at 10:00 am. Unless otherwise noted below.

Meetings are held at Butler SWCD, 1802 Princeton Rd, Hamilton OH 45011.

Board Meetings via Zoom

2025 Butler SWCD Board of Supervisors meetings will also be accessible via Zoom. If you would like to attend, please contact our office for the zoom meeting link and passcode.