Plan to attend this free presentation hosted by HCCA on Tuesday, June 17 to learn about creating a rain garden in your yard. Renee Fortner, Watershed Resources Manager and Director of Programs at Asheville's Riverlink, will show us how to create a rain garden on our property and "harvest rain" to nourish our landscaping.
A rain garden is a depressed area in the landscape that collects rain water from a roof, driveway or street and allows it to soak into the ground. Planted with grasses and flowering perennials, rain gardens can be a cost effective and beautiful way to reduce runoff from your property. Rain gardens can also help filter out pollutants in runoff and provide food and shelter for butterflies, song birds and other wildlife.
All of us in Haw Creek, along with all our Asheville neighbors, have experienced a lot of rainfall on our properties. Heavy rains generate excessive run-off from our roofs, streets, driveways and patios, the impervious solid surfaces that prevent rain from soaking into the ground. Instead, heavy run-offs not only erode our soil but end up in our creeks, streams, and watershed, picking up pollutants like fertilizers, petroleum products, trash, and sediment along the way, which strongly affects our community's water quality.
Rain gardens are a cost-effective and resilient approach to managing stormwater that can bring many social, economic, public health, and environmental benefits to communities. Come learn what you can do to help keep polluting runoff out of our creeks, streams and watershed, while making your yard beautiful at the same time.
Registration is not required but it helps us plan for a successful event.
