Pilot Plot is an experimental garden project focused on storm water, native plants, and public space. The project is funded by a grant from Madison County Planning and Development and the U.S. Steel Trust; in collaboration with the City of Granite City, Granite City art and Design District, Madison County Transit, Grow Native, and Sierra Club-Piasa Palisades.

GCADD and New American Gardening were fortunate to be part of the A way, Away (Listen While I Say) project commissioned by the Pulitzer Art Museum in St. Louis. The project granted 4 pallets of brick and an honorarium to realize a 100' long table in the center of Pilot Plot. New american Gardening collaborated with sculptor Paul Howe to design an build bollards using crushed brick as aggregate.