08 Jan COOLING THE CLIMATE WITH RAIN GARDENS
COOLING THE CLIMATE WITH RAIN GARDENS: TRANSFORMING GARDENS INTO EARTH
GUARDIANS
Gather in celebration and honor for our sacred waters and activate the rewilding of your
water resource footprint.
Current communities are often built around quickly collecting, concentrating, and conveying
away any unused water that comes into our land and home. Gaia does the opposite by
slowing down water’s flow through holding, dispersion, infiltration, and reuse to maintain
healthy ecosystems and their dependence on clean water for life. Learn how visible
stormwater infrastructure and water conservation and recycling strategies allow us to live
with the land in a way that simultaneously enhances planetary and societal health. While
gathering, we will review the cycles of water on the planet and scale our focus smaller until
we reach one accessible water system that has proven to be simple in its development, yet
complex and far-reaching in its benefits ~ a rain garden.
We will explore the ins and outs of a rain garden and how this “green stormwater tool” is
used to connect communities together with nature while hosting rippling benefits like
increased soil hydration, drought, flood, and fire protection, and native flora and pollinator
habitat preservation. Gain hands-on experience with materials and collaboratively create
discussion for how to design and construct water conservation strategies that work with
your land and lifestyle. Leave empowered to bring forth the new water culture Gaia is
dancing into the dawn of existence.
Cooling the Climate with Rain Gardens: Transforming Gardens into Earth Guardians will be
taught by Apryl Dawn Uncapher.
