2026 Winners

A large clump of swamp milkweed blooming in pink clumps behind a decorative copper windmill.
A sign on a lamp post with text "Monarch Waystation" next to a clump of blooming pink milkweed and other lush green plants.

Brookland

Sustainable Practices:

  • Native Plants
  • Pollinator Garden
  • Monarch Waystation
  • Rain Barrel
  • Reduction/Elimination of Pesticides and Fertilizers
A two-story house with solar panels on the roof and a large, lush pollinator garden in the front yard.
A sign with text "Certified Wildlife Habitat" in front of a green pollinator garden.

Fairfield

Sustainable Practices:

  • Native Plants
  • Leaving the Leaves
  • Pollinator Garden
  • Solar Panels
  • Reduction/Elimination of Pesticides and Fertilizers
A brick house with a small garden sitting to the left of the front door.
A plant bed containing various young native trees and that is mulched with pine needles. Two plastic moose are set standing in the bed for decoration.

Three Chopt

Sustainable Practices:

  • Native Plants
  • Pollinator Garden
  • Lawn Reduction
  • Water Feature
  • Reduction/Elimination of Pesticides and Fertilizers
A white house with two garden beds containing natives in the front yard.
A wooden raised garden bed full of lush native plants surrounded by in-ground natives.

Tuckahoe

Sustainable Practices:

  • Native Plants
  • Pollinator and Rain Garden
  • Composting
  • Removing Invasive Plants
  • Reduction/Elimination of Pesticides and Fertilizers
A bring house with a lush front yard full of native plants of various sizes and bloom colors.
A cluster of blooming purple natives and orange native grass.

Varina

Sustainable Practices:

  • Native Plants
  • Pollinator and Rain Garden
  • Rain Barrel
  • Solar Panels
  • Water Feature
  • Reduction/Elimination of Pesticides and Fertilizers
A red barn with solar panels on the roof sitting in a field of green grass.
Seedlings growing out of small blocks of soil that are sitting in a tray.

Clean Business

Fleur-de-lis Farms

Sustainable Practices:

  • No-till Farming
  • No/Low Mow Areas
  • Rotational Grazing
  • Drip Irrigation
  • Native Plants
  • Composting and Recycling
  • Reduction/Elimination of Pesticides and Fertilizers