2024 Winners

A two story house with a large tree and garden bed in the front yard.
Three raised garden beds with green metal walls that are full of thriving, green plants.

Brookland

Sustainable Practices:

  • Pollinator Garden
  • Native Plants
  • Soil Testing
  • Composting
  • Reduction/Elimination of Herbicides, Pesticides, and Fertilizers
photo of a house with shrubs in front and a well-maintained front yard
A large section of a yard that is mulched and pathed with many native flowers and shrubs growing in the mulched area.

Fairfield

Sustainable Practices:

  • Pollinator Garden
  • Native Plants
  • Rain Barrel
  • Composting
  • Reuse of Materials
  • Reduction/Elimination of Herbicides, Pesticides, and Fertilizers
photo of a house with a large garden bed full of thriving plants in the front yard
A paved patio with deck chairs surrounded by many green shrubs, pine needle paths, and trees.

Three Chopt

Sustainable Practices:

  • Pollinator Garden
  • Native Plants
  • Composting
  • Reduction/Elimination of Herbicides, Pesticides, and Fertilizers
photo of a house with a large tree and large garden bed in the front yard
A shaded back yard with trees, several grasses, and a mulched bed of shrubs. There is also a decorative metal windmill.

Tuckahoe

Sustainable Practices:

  • Pollinator/Rain Garden
  • Native Plants
  • Rain Barrel
  • Monarch Waystation
  • Reduction/Elimination of Herbicides, Pesticides, and Fertilizers
photo of a house with a very large plant bed lining the front of the house and perimeter of the yard
Two large, wooden raised plant beds full of a variety of green plants.

Varina

Sustainable Practices:

  • Pollinator/Rain Garden
  • Native Plants
  • Leaving Seed Heads
  • Giving Away Natives
  • Reduction/Elimination of Herbicides, Pesticides, and Fertilizers
photo of a building with a clean parking lot in front
A field of grass containing many wild plants with a sign at the front that says "do not mow. wildflowers and natural habitat in progress".

Clean Business Award

Short Pump Animal Hospital

Sustainable Practices:

  • Pollinator Garden/Native Plants
  • Recycling
  • Dog Waste Station