Collecting rainwater is a sustainable way to provide your garden with moisture during drought. We consulted a landscape ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When an inch of rain falls, more than 1,000 gallons of water runs ...

Disconnecting impervious surfaces, like directing gutters onto lawns instead of driveways, can significantly reduce stormwater runoff. Rain barrels offer a free water source for gardens (non-edible) ...

Rain gardens can be beautiful and functional additions to a home's landscaping. A verdant lawn can make your neighbors green with envy, but traditional turf grass has its downsides. Beneath the ...

Learning Tree Farm uses cisterns to collect rainwater from a barn that was originally built to dry tobacco in the 1800s. Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate.

Some weeks, it arrives as a slow, soaking rain that fills the ditches and turns the yard into a sponge. Other weeks, it comes hard and fast, sheeting off roofs, carving little gullies in sandy soil, ...

A rain garden designed to keep Huntington Harbor free of pollutants from stormwater runoff has been installed at a known flooding area near Gold Star Battalion Beach. Rain water runoff pools on Browns ...

You're looking to collect rainwater for your garden? Great idea! It's a fantastic way to use a natural resource, and there are actually tons of benefits to using rainwater on your grass. So, now that ...

Every time it rains, Angelenos might be thinking: are we saving any of that rain water? Thursday's storm brought some much needed rainfall, but with a burgeoning drought, many Southern California ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – With summer just around the corner, we are nearing our driest months of the year. We are getting close to saying goodbye to the rain and hello to the summer sunshine. We can’t ...