Building a Rain Garden
Join us on August 24th to learn how rain gardens and rain barrels help you conserve water and protect our local streams and rivers.
Join us on August 24th to learn how rain gardens and rain barrels help you conserve water and protect our local streams and rivers.
Jim Kleinwachter of The Conservation Foundation will suggest impactful choices for home landscapes such as planting trees, using native plants, installing rain barrels and reducing chemical use.
Meet the newest addition to our Garden Refresh project at the McDonald Farm: a rain barrel! For those of you who are just joining our journey, we’re giving our disheveled
Graphic from UN-Water For quite a while, there has been concerns about groundwater levels. Recently, it seems that the conversation has become even more heightened. In some locations, groundwater
Hydropanels: Conservation and Drinking Water Hydropanels are a leading-edge technology for providing drinking water. Bill Gates has called it a “clever idea I’m watching closely,” and has even invested
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In this workshop Jim Kleinwachter will show you how rain barrels and rain gardens work and how to install them to capture the valuable water resource that falls on your
Join our Rain Barrels, Rain Gardens, & Other Water Conservation Practices event on Sunday, March 27th to learn about rain barrels and gardens.
This webinar highlights important water quality messaging and explains how your organization can use existing outreach materials to create seasonal public information campaigns addressing lawncare, leaves, chlorides, and pet waste.
McDonald Farm
10S404 Knoch Knolls Road
Naperville, IL 60565
Phone: (630) 428-4500
Fax: (630) 428-4599
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: 9:00am to 5:00pm
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