Rainwater harvesting

Make Your Own Rain Barrel at the Sonoma Community Center (Sonoma, CA)

Offered in partnership with Greywater Action

This workshop is cancelled. Instead we'll be doing a greywater workshop soon with reduced workshop fees through the generous support of the Fairy Godmothers. Check the calendar in a few weeks for the date. 

Come learn about simple, backyard rainwater harvesting systems in this fun hands-on workshop.

Come learn about simple, backyard rainwater harvesting systems. We'll cover common types of rainharvesting systems, storage options, system components, how to size a system, and irrigation methods.

We'll install two systems, a rain barrel system, and a gravity-fed drip irrigation system off an existing 1600 gallon cistern. These systems will:

*provide storage

*reduce stormwater runoff and sewage overflows

*recharge aquifers

*increase your backyard harvest

*lower your water bill

This workshop is put on by Garden for the Environment in San Francisco.

This workshop is part of a sustainablity series held at Sienna Ranch, a demonstration ranch in Lafayette, CA

Simple, low-cost rainwater harvesting systems can lower your water bill, increase your backyard harvest, and reduce storm runoff. This course presents the basic principles of harvesting rainwater in tanks. Participants will install a large rain tank in the Sienna Ranch Learning Garden, and will also learn:

This workshop is part of a sustainablity series held at Sienna Ranch, a demonstration ranch in Lafayette, CA

Want more water for your garden? Harvest the rain!