Managing the Water on Your Land- Making A Rain Garden

Sustainable World Media visits with rainwater harvesting expert Jeff Adams at the recently installed rain garden at the Santa Barbara City College Center for Life Long Learning. In this video, Jeff talks about designing landscapes to retain water- to slow it, spread, sink it.
Jeff talks about how water harvesting techiniques, combined with drought tolerant landscaping and use of native species, contributes to long-term water efficiencies. Keep your garden beautiful through times of drought and intermittent rainfall. Don't let precious water run off your land! Use the water that falls onsite to create a healthier soil food web and a more verdant landscape.

[@OfftoShambala]

why on earth would anyone dislike this video? very naturalistic... I love creeks and have been hanging out in them often since childhood... this looks very real... I can't stand it when people line up medium sized rocks with smaller rocks in the center

[@andreaberryman5354]

Yeah. Don't get it either.

[@orandachildren1051]

Thanks for the video Pauly Shore.

[@outdoorsbeyondnature1980]

California is all about nature too imagine what the landscape was like 1500,s when the Spaniards and Portuguese came. I seen videos basically showing how the San Joaquin Valley an Sacramento Valley was like a sea of blissful of water spilling into the Pacific ocean San Francisco Bay.

[@pongop]

Yes! You could travel via ship from the Fresno area down the Mighty San Joaquin all the way to the Bay Area. And RIP Tulare Lake.

[@sunstarrfox]

Really love the schooling on green grass gardens at the end. This is awesome!

[@outdoorsbeyondnature1980]

"Xersiscaping Rock" garden very good idea.

[@andreaberryman5354]

Lovely to see in action-gorgeous!!!👏😍👌

[@lorenzo42p]

I thought for a second he was barefoot, why not, feels great

[@darmawandesign7820]

Good... I was Designed too "Amberan" Irrigation system
but I can't speak english fluently and I can't make video too

[@jennyearle8906]

whats that called? very awesome for this arid environment

[@kenhenderson6991]

Jenny Earle .

[@johnb8956]

Jenny Earle rain garden

[@avinashmistry6923]

Giving back ...be vivid

[@iHeartAmySue]

Mugwort? Vile weed

[@raphlvlogs271]

can you integrate a rain garden with a pond or pool?

[@peterl.104]

A rain garden is a like a shallow pond that is often dry until it rains, so a rain garden can work as overflow for a pond but I can’t think of any other way to combine them. If you’re thinking swimming pool, then I doubt it. Either the chemicals will hurt the rain garden if it’s used for overflow or having overflow water from the rain garden to a pool would dirty the pool.

[@ltlwlwl5057]

Awesome idea! Y'all definitely left that location better than how you found it.

[@a1sausie453]

What about hairscaping?