The EcoScape Program
BSC EcoScape
Brown Spring EcoScape
The Woodlawn EcoScape
Arlington-West End EcoScape
Princeton BMC Healing Garden
Princeton BMC Sound Garden
College Hills EcoScape

Map of all the EcoScapes
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  Established in 1996 on BSC's campus, this program has expanded to the surrounding communities and utilizes local art work to illustrate organic gardening practices, provides a nuts and bolts overview for schools and communities interested in creating low cost nature centers or outdoor learning sites and offers an oasis of natural beauty in our communities.

  Visitors can stroll through a Northern Wildflower Garden, touch and sample edible plants and flowers, and pass by huge Praying Mantis and Whooping Crane sculptures on the way to the EcoScape's Wetland and Tree Trails.

  The EcoScape also provides a unique focus on water issues, ranging from Xeriscaping to Nonpoint Source pollution. Technically complex issues are presented in layman terms, and in a way that challenges visitors to contribute to change at the workplace or at home.

After receiving local and regional accolades, SEC’s community EcoScape program has now been recognized nationally as well. In addition to Woodlawn EcoScape receiving the 2004 Urban Garden Award from Keep Birmingham Beautiful, Arlington-West End EcoScape was voted one of the best small scale community revitalization projects of 2005 by Neighborhoods USA, a national non profit organization. With its recycled brick pathways, Southern Shield ferns, Fairy Rose beds, and Chris Fennel’s 18ft flower sculpture, this pocket park has become a visible symbol of how vacant properties can be transformed into anchors for revitalization.

Adding to its symbolic status as a gateway to Arlington-West End, the park is also featured on the front cover of the new West End Merchants Association business directory. The book was produced by Main Street Birmingham (www.mainstreetbham.org) for the BEACON program, which targets nine Birmingham commercial districts for economic revitalization.

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