CREATE A RAINGARDEN

Do you worry that pollutants from fertilizers, pesticides, streets, and rooftops are contaminating your lakes and rivers? Do heavy rains collect in pools and puddles in your yard? The easiest way to help water infiltrate into the ground rather than run off into storm sewers is by creating a raingarden. Strategically place your raingarden on a site that will intercept water runoff. If constructed properly, the garden will drain the water within two days.

Rain Gardens: A how-to manual for homeowners from the UW-Extension Service

What's a raingarden?
Raingardens are simply gardens with depressions that are designed to catch rainwater runoff in your yard, growing plants that tolerate getting partially flooded on occasion. They provide beautiful landscaping and wildlife habitat. And, by soaking up rain where it falls, they slow stormwater runoff, help prevent erosion, and remove pollutants in the process.

Our Raingarden training and knowledge base is from bluethumb.org