Come learn how the simple green stormwater infrastructure of a rain garden can mimic pre-development hydrology to support sustainable sites. Rain gardens can offset the impacts of impervious surfaces (driveways, roofs) and semi-impervious surfaces (lawns, patios) that create large amounts of stormwater runoff, causing erosion and pollution downstream. You will come away with an understanding of the benefits of a rain garden, design considerations, and ideas for siting, sizing, and planting a rain garden.

Join us in person in the Yestermorrow main studio or remotely via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84919951767
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Holly Greenleaf is an ecological landscape designer and owner of Greenleaf Design, LLC, a small design, research, illustration, and installation/planting business. She specializes in native plantings, green stormwater infrastructure, bioengineering and lakeshore and riparian restoration, and planting for pollinators and people. Designs are inspired by local place, patterns, plant communities and the people that inhabit these spaces with a goal of functional, regenerative, and beautiful landscapes that benefit soils, water, wildlife, and way of life. Education and outreach work supports land stewards to restore their landscapes, embrace a naturalistic approach, and work with the intelligence of nature to create conditions for all to thrive and be resilient in an uncertain future.

Holly was born and raised as a farmer and gardener in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. She studied Ecological Landscape Design, Sustainable Horticulture, and Studio Art as an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Vermont, earning her Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and Master of Science in Plant and Soil Science. She has been working in the landscape and horticulture industry and practicing landscape design for a decade. She loves to be involved in all aspects of the design process and delights in the ever-changing colors, textures, structures, scents, and vitality of a living landscape.