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Rain Garden Workshop

June 17, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Get your hands dirty for clean water. Learn about the benefits of adding native plants to your landscape.

A rain garden is a special, water loving garden that helps soak up rainwater from your roof, driveway, or other hard (impervious) surface.  It is designed to capture water from a 1″ rainstorm and slowly infiltrate it back into the ground. By using an assortment of beautiful native plants, rain gardens can also provide habitat for wildlife, beneficial insects, such as ladybugs, and pollinators like butterflies.

Click here to register for our FREE rain garden workshop at a private residence in Baldwin. No gardening experience necessary.  Appropriate for children 8+ years old with parent/guardian.

What will I do at the workshop?

  • Learn about stormwater runoff and how it affects local waterways
  • Learn how to divert rain water draining from hard surfaces to a rain garden
  • Observe garden installation techniques, such as siting with an A-frame level and leveling a berm

What to bring?: Dress for yard work (long pants, hat, closed shoes, sunscreen) and bring your own water bottle. This workshop will primarily be educational (no gardening) but will be held outdoors.

This workshop is part of the Clear Creeks Project. Coordinated by the Gunpowder Valley Conservancy (GVC), the Clear Creeks Project is a grant-funded, citizen-based initiative that helps answer a community desire to restore the water quality within the Gunpowder Watershed. Additional funding provided by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation; Chesapeake Bay Trust; Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability; Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund, administered by Maryland Department of Natural Resources; and BGE.

Details

Date:
June 17, 2023
Time:
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Organizer

Darcy Herman @ Gunpowder Valley Conservancy
Phone
410-780-8618
Email
dherman@gunpowdervc.org

Venue

Private Residence – Baldwin
4511 Carroll Manor Road
Baldwin, MD 21013
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