Hey East Lake Community Learning Garden! We are definitely going to be green for March, kicking off with a Rain Barrel Workshop with Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeepers on Saturday March 10th at 10am! There are a limited number of barrels available, so register soon! $40 includes your barrel, kit and loads of info regarding water conservation.
We will also have refreshments and other projects and activities around the garden. If you already have a rain barrel, and just want to join us for a Saturday in the garden, feel free to come around 11 to plant and say hello to our sweet sheep 🙂
Register for the Rain Barrel Workshop here! (be sure and choose Mar 10 (Sat) for your workshop date).
UCR’s Rain Barrel Program kills two birds with one stone! Thanks to a partnership with Coca-Cola, UCR re-purposes donated 60-gallon syrup drums from the Atlanta-based beverage company and teaches workshop participants how they can convert them into rain harvesting containers. Our rain barrel design requires no over flow or worries about mosquitoes, so the collection in the barrel is easy and painless.
Headwaters Outreach Manager Bonny Putney, who is certified in rain water collection, hosts a series of rain barrel workshops over the course of the year. The $40 fee not only includes a rain barrel, installation kit and instructions, but also is good for a one-year UCR membership. Register here.
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