Build Your Own Rain Garden
 
This project was developed by the Student Baysavers Projects, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Save the Bay (http://www.cbf.org) and is used with their permission.

Goals

• To help students see the connection between runoff in their community and the health of the whole Chesapeake Bay watershed
   
• To help students restore a wildlife habitat in their community
   
• To help students learn to appreciate and care for the natural environment

Materials

• 3 sections of 2-inch x 12-inch #1 treated pine (lengths depend on the size of the rain garden to be built)
   
• 10 2-foot sections of steel reinforcing bar (rebar)
   
• 2 stainless steel elbow brackets with 4-1/2-inch stainless steel wood screws
   
• Screwdrivers and a hammer
   
• Shovels and rakes
   
• Topsoil (number of bags depends on the size of the rain garden)
   
• Mulch or straw
   
• Sand
   
• Plants

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