RainScaping Newsletter

Chesapeake Green Living Festival

Saturday & Sunday, June 19 & 20, 2010, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m
Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds, Crownsville, Maryland

The Chesapeake Green Living Festival is about saving energy, saving water and saving money.  It’s about all the latest green products and services, about tax credits, rebates and incentives, about green jobs and business opportunities, about recycling, about organic food, about cutting- edge green technology, about conservation, about green building, about hybrid vehicles, about the environment, about wind power and solar energy, about sustainability, about climate change, about reducing our carbon footprint, preserving our resources and improving our health and well being in the Chesapeake region.

The RainScaping Campaign, one of the sponsors of the festival, will have an exhibit and extensive handouts. Plan to join us for this first-ever Chesapeake Green Living showcase. 

For more information about the Chesapeake Green Living Festival, visit: ChesapeakeGreenLivingFestival.com.

CEC Garden Open House and Native Plant Sale

Saturday, September 18, 2010, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Chesapeake Ecology Center
245 Clay Street
Annapolis, MD  21403

(In case of rain, this event will take place on Sunday, Sept. 19th, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.)

All are invited to the Chesapeake Ecology Center’s (CEC) annual Garden Open House and Native Plant Sale. Whole Foods Market will generously donate refreshments. Master Gardeners will lead guided tours of the 30 Native Plant Demonstration Gardens and Sites, including 10 rain gardens, at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., and Noon. The CEC is located just minutes from downtown and the State Capital, at Adams Academy at Adams Park Middle School, 245 Clay Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401. The event is free and attendees will receive a free copy of the new 2010 book entitled Rain Gardens Across Maryland.  

RainScaping Partners are invited to participate. 

Upcoming RainScaping TV Ads/PSAs

To promote and encourage Anne Arundel County residents to implement rainscaping practices, the RainScaping Campaign is working to produce and distribute a blitz of television advertising, which will be distributed in the fall.  And we are continuing to produce and distribute print and outdoor advertising. 

This spring, we’ve interviewed and videotaped and several individuals, rain garden/bioretention installations, and rain barrel installations to assemble footage for two 30 second Ads/PSAs which will air on nine networks for seven weeks in the fall (2,500+ Ads/PSAs), and to produce short instructional videos on rain gardens and rain barrels. 

Shady Side Rural Heritage Society's Grand Opening for Rain Gardens and Heritage Eco Tour

Sunday, June 13^th marked the Shady Side Rural Heritage Society’s Grand Opening for the installation of three rain gardens and four rain barrels, installed in May on the Captain Salem Avery Museum grounds—and they are indeed grand and a central permanent part of the new educational Heritage Eco Tour! Visitors will be able to see how to become good stewards of the rivers and Chesapeake Bay by following the Heritage Eco Tour around the Museum grounds.