If the climate crisis has increased storms in your area, raised beds, rain gardens, and native plants should be your new best friends.

You direct the rainwater from the downspouts to the garden via a swale (a stone channel) or plastic piping. Also, much likerain gardens, bioswale are meant to absorb water runoff but they are a ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -The City of Santa Barbara creeks division partnered with the watershed stewards program for a day of ...

Comprised of raised plant beds, bee hives, fruit trees, a bioswale water run-off capture system, and interpretive signage, our three-quarters of an acre garden demonstrates the major environmental ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -The City of Santa Barbara creeks division partnered with the watershed stewards program for a day of volunteer planting and Bioswale restoration at Adams Elementary School.