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The Muscatine Pollinator Park, 700 South Houser Street in Muscatine is another one of our beautiful stops on the 2025 Garden Tour Fundraiser. To visit this garden, enter through the parking lot at the Muscatine Dog Park.
Jon Koch, Director, City of Muscatine Water & Resource Recovery Facility, became interested in planting native more than seven years ago, after reading Bringing Nature Home. Then, he hit the ground running with 10 other volunteers to start the Muscatine Pollinator Project. In short order, the crew secured permission to take over acres of unused farm land to create a 55-acre Pollinator Park inside the city limits of Muscatine. Koch recognized that the grounds of the Muscatine wastewater facility were green grass ecological wastelands. As Director of the City of Muscatine Water & Resource Recovery Facility, he had the opportunity to replace the lawn with native plantings, creating pollinator meadows. While there was some cost to making this conversion, the long-term cost savings are measurable in reduced labor, machine storage, and maintenance. These benefits, including the creation of pollinator habitats, have proven to be a great success and these gardens are now ON THE MAP!1
Photographs: Angela Woodhouse, Muscatine County Arts Council
Footnotes: 1 Jon Koch, Plant Success Stories, Homegrown National Park
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