"Greening Up Your Yard" Workshop

With 15 of 25 available grants already handed out for rain gardens, Mount Pleasant-Sturtevant Patchers have only two more opportunities to apply.

The last workshop of "Greening Up Your Garden" from the Root-Pike WIN (Watershed Initiative Network) are scheduled for June 25. Anyone interested in applying for a rain garden grant must attend one of the workshops.

Participants learn how to minimize stormwater runoff, one of the primary causes of pollution in area waterways; healthy lawn care; proper composting practices; and, of course, how to plant and care for a rain garden. One rain barrel will be given away at each workshop by a random drawing.

According to a press release from the Root-Pike WIN, since 2008, more than 700,000 gallons of rain water and snow-ice melt has been kept out of area waterways because of the 78 rain gardens funded through the initiative.

If You Go:

What: Root-Pike WIN "Greening Up Your Yard" Workshop
When: 10 am to 1 pm Sat., June 25
Where: Root River Environmental Education Center, 1301 Sixth Street
Cost: Free