Recap of services previoulsy offered through Sweetwater Collaborative:
The purpose of the classes was to give basic information about greywater reuse, rainwater harvesting in the soil or tanks, how to assess a site for the potential of becoming more water wise, and how to take care of a water wise landscape once you have put it in.
Recap of services previously offered through Sweetwater Collaborative:
For many years, we offered hands-on community-based workshops where people learned together while helping install sustainable systems. Projects offered include planting native and Mediterraean gardens, fruit trees and food forests, and installing raingardens, laundry to landscape greywater systems, and water harvesting tanks.
Recap of services previously offered through Sweetwater Collaborative:
May 2021- Talk of drought is in the air in our community. For a bit of time, many people considered we have had a reprieve from dealing with that stress locally, since Lake Cachuma was officially full and set to provide our water needs for the next few years. Granted, we had other stresses to deal with during the Pandemic, but that particular one was not on most people’s radar so much.
Recap of services previously offered through Sweetwater Collaborative:
This was a monthly series of technical round tables for landscape professionals that covered a variety of topics that were central to best water-wise practices. We held Technical Round Tables from Sept 2015-March 2017 in the Watershed Resource Center at Hendry's Beach.