Gorgeous Garden, Minimal Water: Learn How This Weekend in RWC

Over the next two Saturdays, (Oct. 5 and 12), the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency (BAWSCA), Redwood City's local water agency, will team up with the city's Public Works Dept. to offer free water-efficient landscaping classes. The classes are open to residents throughout the Peninsula and Silicon Valley who wish to create a beautiful garden with minimal water. 

For the first time, the classes will be held in Redwood City's new water-efficient demonstration garden.  In these two hands-on workshops, participants will help to install the first water efficient demonstration garden at the RWC Public Works Office location (1400 Broadway, Redwood City).

BAWSCA's FREE classroom lectures and hands-on workshops focus on:

•         Sustainable Landscaping
•         Understanding Water-Use Efficiency in the Landscape
•         Use of California Native and Drought Tolerant Plants
•         Creating Healthy Soil
•         Alternatives to Lawn
•         Habitat Gardening
•         Edible Landscaping
•         Water-Efficient Irrigation Practices
•         Parent/Child Gardening Activities

Saturday, October 5, 2013:

The focus on irrigation; how to install and maintain an irrigation system.

Saturday October 12, 2013:

Participants will learn about water efficient landscape design.

To see the full schedule and class descriptions, including the two October workshops in Redwood City, visit the BAWSCA Web site or call 650-349-3000 for more information.