Park Steward Program

The Fishers Park Steward Program helps ensure that Fishers’ parks are clean, welcoming, and thriving ecosystems for the community. The program coordinates with volunteers who provide monthly trash cleanup, trail maintenance, invasive species removal, and reporting vandalism and park damage at one of five different parks in the city.

Individuals and groups are welcome. Park Stewards are asked to work on their park at a minimum of once per month for one year. Available locations are:

• Geist Waterfront Park
• Flat Fork Creek Park
• Billericay Park
• Holland Park
• Ritchey Woods Nature Preserve

Composting

Fishers residents can get one free, 3-gallon composting bin with 10 compostable liners. Those who use this system can drop off their compost at the Fishers Agripark (11171 Florida Road, Fishers).

City Recycling Day

The City of Fishers hosts bi-annual, free City Recycling Days in the spring and fall at Billericay Park. At these events, Fishers residents can recycle household electronic or metal items (mowers, treadmills, bikes, grills, batteries, etc.) and household hazardous wastes (paints, pesticides, PCB ballasts, auto fluids, etc.).

Water & Splash Pads

To increase water quality and reduce chemical usage, Fishers Department of Public Works created self-sustaining, eco-friendly ponds at Cyntheanne Park and the Nickel Plate District AMP that include underwater aeration systems, fisheries, and aquatic shoreline plantings. These elements supply better quality water to sports fields and turf, producing deeper, healthier root systems and thicker, more lush turf quality.

Splash pads at Holland Park and Billericay Park and the fountain at the Pavilion at the Nickel Plate District AMP are eco-friendly, as well, utilizing a water recycling system that saves the city and environment approximately 100,000 gallons of water a day.

Tree City USA

The City of Fishers has been awarded Tree City USA designation from the National Arbor Day Foundation annually since 2007. This designation is bestowed upon cities that continue enhancement of the natural environment and practice sound urban forestry management.

Fishers Farmers Market Bags

At the Fishers Farmers Market on Saturdays through the season, market vendors do not provide plastic bags. All guests are encouraged to bring their own reusable bags.