Living with Lake Erie as Your Neighbor: Rain Gardens 101

Rain gardens are attractive landscaped areas planted with perennial native plants that don’t mind getting “wet feet”, they are beautiful gardens, built in depressions, designed to capture and filter storm water runoff from impervious surfaces around the home, such as rooftops and driveways. This workshop covers not only their construction, and stormwater benefits, but their wildlife benefit too. Individuals who attend the workshop leave with the Rain Garden Manual for Homeowners instructional guide, an aerial map of the property they wish to install the rain garden on, and the NEO-PIPE Do Your Part, Replace Invasive Plant With Natives handout.

Space requirements: Seating for attendees, electricity, media cart or table for laptop and projector. Rain garden on-site is a plus, but not required.

Cost FREE; Length 1 hour