water conservation – Sustainable Ewing Green Team

We invite you to join us on Saturday, May 17th for a 2-hour workshop to learn more about the benefits of adding a rain garden to your landscape. You will enhance its beauty, all while improving drainage, and creating a wildlife habitat.

Rain gardens can help us manage storm water runoff from rooftops, driveways, lawns, roads, and other hard surfaces. They look like regular perennial gardens, but they are much more. During a storm, a rain garden fills with water, and the water slowly filters into the ground rather than running into storm sewers. By capturing storm water, rain gardens help to reduce the impact of human activities and pollution in the environment such as road sediment/salt, fertilizers, pesticides, bacteria from pet waste, eroded soil, grass clippings, litter, etc. This helps protect the health of our waterways. Rain gardens also add beauty to neighborhood and provide wildlife habitat.

In this 2-hour workshop, you can learn how to plan and plant your own rain garden, enhancing your property and your neighborhood, about the stormwater benefits of rain gardens, providing watershed-wide benefits with native plants, and go home with a plant list or draft design for your yard. Now is the perfect time to plan a rain garden for planting this spring!

Presenters: Olvia Spildooren from The Watershed Institute. Olivia is the River-Friendly Coordinator

Event Summary

Event: Rain Garden Design Workshop
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2025
Time: 10 am – Noon
Location: Hollowbrook Community Center, Community Room, 320 Holllowbrook Drive, Ewing, NJ 08638
Pre-registration: https://thewatershed.doubleknot.com/event/ewing-rain-garden-design-workshop/3099881

We invite you to learn more about water conservation and how to harvest rainwater from your roof and divert it for on-site usage in the landscape at out October 12^th Rain Barrel Workshop. The Ewing Green Team, in partnership with The Watershed Institute in Pennington, will teach you how to build a rain barrel at the workshop. The program will be presented by Olivia Spildooren, River-Friendly Coordinator at The Watershed. The fee for the program is $25. We have obtained 20 free food grade barrels while has enabled us to offer this program at a bargain price. Registration is limited so be sure to register early. The workshop will run approximately 2 hours. Sign up here.

Event: Rain Barrel Workshop
Dates: Saturday, October 12th
Time: 9 a.m. – Noon
Location: Hollowbrook Community Center, Community Room, 320 Hollowbrook Drive, Ewing, NJ 08638
Cost: $25 per rain barrel
Pre-register: https://bit.ly/3T9f2oG

Installation of rain barrels in your yard will enable you to take an active role in reducing flooding and pollution in local waterways. Install rain barrels under your gutter’s downspout to harvest rainwater from your roof. Each rain barrel holds approximately 50 gallons. You can install them singly on hook them up in tandem to reserve even more water. Use the water to save money and save water when you irrigate your gardens with it during times of low rain. In case you miss the workshop or are unable to attend, rain barrels are also for sale at local garden centers for approximately $100, give or take.