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Rain Barrels & Rain Gardens

Saturday, September 10

10am-Noon

Palm Room

$25 Arboretum members

$28 non-members

Stephen Williams, instructor

Learn why cities have programs to promote the construction of tens of thousands of rain gardens nationwide. See how to design and install a rain garden and barrel system. Capture

seasonal rain water for future use and/or gather it for infiltration through a depressed garden area to recharge the ground water.

Discover how you can develop a sustainable landscape which promotes native wildlife, utilizes less irrigation, and uses fewer fertilizers and pesticides. The emphasis will also be on soils, amendments, plant selection, irrigation, mulching and maintenance.

For reservations: Please call (626) 821-4623, or email jill.berry@arboretum.org . You may also pay at the door.

"There is one, and only one, solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world,and train all our young people to help. They want to.
We need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities,stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience"
"...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter."

- Bill Mollison