You can learn how to build a rain garden and improve the health of our creeks in our ongoing Rain Garden Program.
Thanks to a Strowd Roses grant, Friends of Bolin Creek has continued our outreach this year to teach community members how easy it is to build a rain garden. We conducted another successful rain garden workshop in late May where we trained a number of homeowners to build their own rain gardens. They helped dig and plant a rain garden at a homeowners’ site just off of Bolin Creek.
In late summer, Friends of Bolin Creek let a workshop at the Roger Road Community Center day camp. Campers learned about critters, native plants and stormwater during a scavanger hunt in the field next door. Then campers picked up shovels and together dug a rain garden near the entrance of the Roger Road Community Center. This picture captures it all.
To read more about rain gardens, see this short video about the 2014 rain garden homeowner workshop and read much more here. Read about the Chapel Hill High School Rain Garden we built with the Town of Chapel Hill Stormwater folks here.