Rain Garden Workshops

Another joint EPOC activity is Commission-sponsored rain garden workshops. In collaboration with the Joint EPOC, 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 is offered to citizens at minimal cost. Workshop A is conducted by a landscape ecologist/educational consultant who presents a do-it-yourself/how-to approach for constructing a rain garden. Workshop B offers participants hands-on help and advice on individual rain garden plans. On-site consultation is also available as part of the program. Rain garden workshops were hosted by the cities of Crystal, Maple Grove and Plymouth in spring, 2010 and will be held again in the spring of 2011. It is intended that, with collaborative promotion, this program will outreach residents in all four watersheds.