Creating rain gardens capturing rain for your own water-efficient garden
Explains how to design a landscape to capture and use rain and runoff for watering a garden naturally.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Portland :
Timber Press,
2012.
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| Summary: | Explains how to design a landscape to capture and use rain and runoff for watering a garden naturally. |
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| Physical Description: | 203 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-191) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604692402 (sc.) 1604692405 (sc.) |
| Author Notes: | Apryl Uncapher is an ecological designer dedicated to rainwater harvesting modeled on nature's examples. Co-author of the San Francisco Rainwater Harvesting Guide , Apryl has consulted on a variety of integrative stormwater management and water recycling projects for more than a decade. With a degree in innovative design engineering from Purdue University and accredited as a LEED professional, Apryl continually sources opportunities to participate in water projects that inspire a sustainable water consciousness. Apryl currently resides in San Francisco where she is passionately preserving water resources with two little girls splashing and dreaming by her side. Cleo Woelfle-Erskine is a hydrologist, educator, and scholar of water. He co-founded the Greywater Guerrillas, and has led dozens of community-based workshops on rainwater harvesting and greywater reuse. His writing has appeared in outlets like High Country News , Yes , Urban Wilds , Dam Nation , and Sustainable Water . An avid gardener, Woelfle-Erskine is also a teacher of equity and environmental justice at the University of Washington. |
