Holiday Lake West Civic Association has been working on a community garden with Code Green Community's help for the past 8 months. Since it's inception we have modeled ourselves to seek water conservation techniques to ensure our garden used the least amount of water during the drought months.
We want to take that a step further by only using rain water from now on. Introducing Holiday Lake West's Rain Barrel Workshop. This rain barrel workshop costs $55 and will be a fundraiser for our garden hosted at the Civic Association on August 22nd, from 10 – 11:30 am. You will receive a barrel and all the parts needed to construct your rain barrel. Afterwards a water conservation class will be taught as well regarding water saving techniques such as drip irrigation and soaker hoses.
This article appears in Aug 12-18, 2009.