Kentucky Native Landscaping Rebates

MSD offers $100 per downspout for disconnecting downspouts and redirecting water into yards, gardens, or rain barrels. Every Drop program provides reduced-cost installation assistance for rain gardens, rain barrels, native trees, and native plant gardens in the Beargrass Creek watershed. Volunteer-assisted installations.

Every Drop uses volunteers to help with installation. MSD provides free Rain Garden Handbook and Plant Guide at louisvillemsd.org.

The Fayette County Conservation District's Backyard Conservation Program reimburses 50% of eligible project costs, up to a $200 cap, for rain gardens, pollinator gardens, and native plants or trees (the same flat cap also covers unrelated items like rain barrels and compost bins within the same program). Open to all Fayette County residents, including renters. The program is currently at capacity; 2026 applications will be accepted exclusively online via JotForm when they reopen (Fayette County Conservation District; last verified July 2026).

Structurally the same "Backyard Conservation" cost-share pattern as the existing Jefferson County SWCD entry (also at capacity). Distinct program administered by a different county district.

The Franklin County Conservation District's Urban Cost Share Program reimburses 50% of eligible costs, up to $500, for a pollinator garden (one of five urban sustainability options the district offers alongside unrelated items like raised beds, rain barrels, and beehives). Limited to one application per household, Franklin County, KY residents only, first-come first-served (Franklin County Conservation District; last verified July 2026). Distinct from Franklin County, OHIO's unrelated Community Backyards program of the same generic name pattern; confirmed this is Frankfort, Kentucky via the district's own franklincountyconservationdistrict.com domain.

No online application form; apply by contacting the district office directly. Wrong-state trap avoided: this is Franklin County, KY (Frankfort), not Franklin County, OH (Columbus), which runs an unrelated "Community Backyards" program already covered in data/rebates/ohio.ts.

The Jefferson County Soil and Water Conservation District reimburses 80% of the cost of seed and plants for a new or existing native plant garden, up to a $100 cap. Ties to Louisville Metro's Managed Natural Landscapes ordinance, which allows residents to maintain natural landscapes. The District runs the program once a year and applications usually open in early spring, so the window is closed between cycles. Funding was exhausted for fiscal year 2025-26 but the program is funded for fiscal year 2026-27. Funding is limited and applicants go through a ranking process, so not everyone who applies will qualify (confirmed by Kris Mann, Natural Resources Specialist, Jefferson County Soil and Water Conservation District, August 2026).

Currently not accepting applications ("The application window is now closed. Please check back soon!"). A small, cyclical cost-share distinct from the existing Louisville MSD Every Drop entry; flagged for a status recheck on the next refresh cycle.

The Warren County Conservation District's Backyard Conservation Program reimburses 75% of eligible costs, up to a $200 cap, for a rain garden (the same program also covers unrelated items like composting and bat houses within the same cap). Warren County, KY residents only, one application per household, first-come first-served (Warren County Conservation District; last verified July 2026).

Application is a downloadable form, not an online portal; submit by email or mail.

The Campbell County Conservation District reimburses 75% of project cost, up to $500 per household per fiscal year (July 1 to June 30), for backyard conservation practices. Rain gardens, native grass and tree planting, pollinator gardens, and monarch waystations are named eligible practices, alongside rain barrels, composting, raised garden beds, invasive removal, and certified backyard wildlife habitat. Unusually for a Kentucky conservation district, the program is open to all landowners with no farm number requirement, and the district states that preference goes to landowners who are NOT eligible for other state and federal cost share programs. Practices must stay in place at least three years (Campbell County Conservation District Backyard Conservation Local Cost Share brochure and application, last verified September 2026).

Source document is the district brochure and application PDF dated June 2023, hosted on the University of Kentucky cooperative extension file server; the district website is campbellkyconservation.org (office at 8350 East Main Street, Alexandria, KY 41001). This is the first Kentucky conservation district row confirmed to carry NO farm number gate, which is the eligibility blocker that has held the Shelby County KY rows out of the directory. Cities array lists Campbell County municipalities; the county also contains a city named California, KY, deliberately omitted so it cannot collide with state matching.

Oldham County Conservation District reimburses 50% of the cost of plants, up to $150 per property annually, for establishing pollinator habitat. The planting must be a mixture of at least ten plants including at least one native grass, and must follow the district recommended installation procedures and seeding rates. Applications are accepted year-round and approved monthly at the board discretion; dated receipts and a photo of the completed planting are submitted after approval (Oldham County Conservation District, Pollinator Habitat Cost Share, last verified August 2026).

A separate, unverified Oldham County lead exists for a Currys Fork Watershed residential cost-share at a much larger figure. That figure appeared only in search-engine AI summaries and could not be found on any oldhamccd.org page or in its sitemap, so it is carried forward rather than published here. See DISCOVERY_CARRYFORWARD.md.

Scott County Conservation District runs a Pollinator Plot Program paying a 50% cost share up to $100 per plot, with a three foot by six foot minimum plot size and a requirement to use native plants from the planting guide included with the application. The district Plant a Tree Program is a separate line item at its own rate, 50% up to $100 per native hardwood tree with a four-tree maximum per fiscal year, fruit trees excluded. Applications are handled through the district office rather than an online portal (Scott County Conservation District local cost share programs page, last verified August 2026).

Same per-project structure as the existing Fayette, Franklin and Warren County KY rows: the district lists several backyard practices, each with its own separate cap, rather than one shared pool across a single application. Rain barrel, bat house, beehive and raised garden bed line items on the same page are out of scope. The page prints three different phone numbers across its line items; 502-863-2466 is the one shown against both the Pollinator Plot and Plant a Tree programs.

Woodford County Conservation District offers urban and suburban residents a 50% cost share, up to $150, for eligible backyard conservation projects. Rain gardens and bioswales, riparian habitat and stream buffers, and perennial pollinator habitat are each named as eligible practices, alongside rainwater harvesting systems and bird, bat and owl houses. Both renters and landowners on any property in the county may apply, first-come first-served. The current cycle is between rounds: the district states the next application period begins in February 2027 (Woodford County Conservation District local cost share page, last verified August 2026).

Unusually broad eligibility for this program family: the district explicitly opens it to renters as well as landowners, on any property in the county. Entered as exhausted rather than open because the current round has closed and the district names February 2027 as the next application period; there is no "closed" value in the funding-status schema.