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Help Design a Rain Garden!

3/12/2018

 
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Design a Rain Garden. Enjoy free food. Impact your community. 

Creative and innovative middle and high school students are invited to help us design a rain garden for the amazing Paradise Parking Plots Community Garden. 

FREE, but registration is required so we can plan food and material! 
REGISTER HERE: goo.gl/oF7ckD

During this two-day engineering design workshop, students will work with Paradise Parking Plots Landscape Designers Jake Harris and Marco Downs from Stone Soup Gardens to answer the questions “Where are the best places to put a rain garden in order to reduce stormwater pollution?” and “What types of plants should we put in the rain garden?” 

PART ONE: 1:30-3:30 Wednesday, March 28: Rain Garden Engineering
PART TWO: 1:30-3:30 Wednesday, April 4th: Rain Garden Plant Selection
WHERE: Hillside Church, 930 E James St, Kent, WA 98031

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND:
1. Get involved with your community & earn Service Learning Hours
2. Increase your knowledge of rain garden engineering.
3. Tour the amazing “Paradise Parking Plots” Community Garden.
4. Help reduce polluted stormwater runoff in Mill Creek
5. Enjoy delicious free food.

INFO or QUESTIONS….? 
Contact Cassandra - cassandra@sustainabilityambassadors.org

FREE, but registration is required so we can plan food and material! 
REGISTER HERE: goo.gl/oF7ckD

Raingarden Class at City People's Garden Store

3/12/2018

 
A great big thank you to City People's Garden Store for hosting Jake Harris to talk about Raingarden plants and stormwater infrastructure in January!  We had a few photos from the event that we wanted to share.  Check our Education page for more great upcoming opportunities to connect and learn about plants! 
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