A committee of seven women in rural West Fork in southern Washington County have drafted an ordinance to amend the town's property maintenance code to allow for increased cultivation of wildflower meadows, pollinator plant gardens and even small orchards on private yards and properties — possibly the first municipal ordinance of its kind approved in Arkansas. The committee sourced National Wildlife Federation best practices on neighborhood habitat landscapes.
West Fork enacts novel ordinance to enable ecologically beneficial landscapes
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