North Dakota Native Landscaping Rebates

Cass County Soil Conservation District reimburses landowners in Cass County, ND for Alternative Landscape Practices: 75% cost-share up to $500 for a Pocket Prairie, and 60% cost-share up to $500 for a rain garden/bioswale, xeriscape, pollinator garden or habitat, low-mow turf grass, or native grass/forb planting. Pervious paving is separately eligible at 60% up to $1,000. A limited number of grants are awarded per year (Cass County Soil Conservation District Urban Conservation Cost-Share Assistance Application; last verified July 2026).

North Dakota's first directory entry. Found during the 2026-07-29 discovery sweep. Other urban-designated ND SWCDs (Burleigh County/Bismarck, Grand Forks County) are carried forward as candidates for the same program shape, unconfirmed as of this sweep.

Many North Dakota water utilities offer rebates for EPA WaterSense smart irrigation controllers and for converting spray to drip. Amounts and eligibility vary by provider. Search by zip code at the EPA WaterSense Rebate Finder to see programs in your area.

Rebate finder links to utility-specific programs. Smart controller and drip conversion rebates are common in water-stressed regions.

Many utilities in North Dakota offer incentives tied to water efficiency improvements. Turf replacement rebates and native landscaping incentives vary a lot by provider. Use the national rebate finder below to see what is available near your zip code.

This entry is a starting point for finding applicable programs. Specific amounts and requirements depend on the utility and your address.

The Richland County Soil Conservation District cost-shares 60 percent of actual cost for pollinator habitat plantings, capped by site size: up to $250 for a small site of 8 to 1,000 square feet, $500 for a medium site under an acre, and $1,000 for a large site over an acre. The 8 square foot floor is real, so an ordinary front-yard bed qualifies at the small tier. Choose one covered planting type per application: Native Pocket Planting, Pollinator Beneficial Trees and Shrubs, Pollinator Meadow, or Community Orchard. Cost share applies to site preparation, seed or tree costs. Receipts and seed tags are required for payment along with photos of the process and the finished planting, and one payment is issued at approved project completion. Seed may be sourced through the district; buying your own requires receipts and an approved vendor list (Richland County SCD, Pollinator Habitat Application; last verified August 2026).

Found during the 2026-08-10 discovery sweep and independently re-verified against the district page and its own application PDF, whose embedded creation date is 2026-07-29, twelve days before this check, so currency is well established. Only the second North Dakota entry in the directory after Cass County. The hosted application filename still contains "319" from a former Section 319 funding stream, but the document titles itself "Pollinator Habitat Application", the string 319 appears nowhere in its text, and the district page states in the present tense that it can continue to offer the grant through a different resource. Scope confirmed as a uniform per-practice rate keyed to site size, not a shared multi-category pool; the Community Orchard option is defined by the district as a pollinator planting of fruit trees, shrubs and flowers, not a food-garden grant. preApprovalRequired set true because payment is made at approved project completion and self-purchase requires an approved vendor list, though the district does not print an explicit do-not-buy-first instruction.