In 2018, FoHVOS received grant funding from the Watershed Institute to convert a 1-acre lawn detention basin to a wildflower meadow at the Hopewell Township Public Works facility. This project also included work done on school properties including the meadow at the Hopewell Valley Central High School.
Meadows provide many environmental and ecological benefits relative to lawns. These include significantly higher carbon storage, elimination of lawn chemicals, groundwater infiltration and flood control, and habitat for pollinators leading to a complex meadow food web.
Meadows absorb 70% more carbon than lawns, plus they only require a single annual mowing that adds
to the carbon savings.