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Green Yard Workshops and Raingardens
Another example of joint educational activities are Commission-sponsored rain garden workshops. In collaboration with the Elm Creek Watershed Management Commission, Metro Blooms, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to eco-friendly gardening education for residents of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, has developed a program of workshops that are offered to citizens at minimal cost. These workshops help explain how you can help keep our lakes, rivers and streams clean by the simple changes you make in your yard care choices. The workshops explore the latest in healthy yard care practices, including proper use of fertilizers, disposal and reuse of yard waste, keeping sidewalks ice free and managing runoff onsite. It is designed to move participants quickly from an overview of healthy yard care practices to a completed raingarden design for their property with one on one assistance from Metro Blooms landscape designers and Hennepin County Master Gardeners. |
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Whether you are an experienced gardener or have never tried gardening before, these eco-friendly gardening workshops will help you learn how to:
• Capture rainwater on site with raingardens.
• Redirect your downspouts and install a rain barrel.
• Plan your own garden with one-on-one assistance from landscape designers and Hennepin County Master Gardeners.
• Use beautiful native plants in your garden landscape.
• Adopt healthy yard care practices for you and for our clean waters.
Participants are also eligible for a low-cost onsite consultation and design drawing from a landscape design professional.
“Metro Blooms has been partnering with Twin Cities Metro communities to provide low-cost raingarden workshops since 2005,” said Metro Blooms Executive Director Becky Rice. “Over 6,000 residents have attended our workshops and over 2,000 raingardens have been installed.”
To register, visit www.metroblooms.org or call 651-699-2426.
Sponsored by:
The cities of Minneapolis, St. Louis Park, Plymouth, Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, New Hope, Golden Valley, Crystal, and Robbinsdale, the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District, and the Bassett Creek, Elm Creek, Shingle Creek and West Mississippi Watershed Management Commissions.
Metro Blooms, a non-profit organization, works to strengthen communities by promoting environmentally-sound landscaping that beautifies neighborhoods and protects our environment.
• Capture rainwater on site with raingardens.
• Redirect your downspouts and install a rain barrel.
• Plan your own garden with one-on-one assistance from landscape designers and Hennepin County Master Gardeners.
• Use beautiful native plants in your garden landscape.
• Adopt healthy yard care practices for you and for our clean waters.
Participants are also eligible for a low-cost onsite consultation and design drawing from a landscape design professional.
“Metro Blooms has been partnering with Twin Cities Metro communities to provide low-cost raingarden workshops since 2005,” said Metro Blooms Executive Director Becky Rice. “Over 6,000 residents have attended our workshops and over 2,000 raingardens have been installed.”
To register, visit www.metroblooms.org or call 651-699-2426.
Sponsored by:
The cities of Minneapolis, St. Louis Park, Plymouth, Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, New Hope, Golden Valley, Crystal, and Robbinsdale, the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District, and the Bassett Creek, Elm Creek, Shingle Creek and West Mississippi Watershed Management Commissions.
Metro Blooms, a non-profit organization, works to strengthen communities by promoting environmentally-sound landscaping that beautifies neighborhoods and protects our environment.
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