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Specialist Training – Rainwater Harvesting RESCHEDULED
October 17, 2016 @ 12:00 am
PLEASE NOTE: This specialist training has been cancelled for 2016 and is tentatively rescheduled for April 10-12, 2017.
Landscape water conservation goals have created a new interest in rainwater harvesting for irrigation and other uses. This new interest provides a great opportunity to educate homeowners how to irrigate with harvested rainwater. In rural areas we can educate landowners how to use harvested rainwater to meet the water needs for livestock, wildlife, gardens, firefighting and greenhouses. In areas of natural low precipitation, rainwater harvesting can make the difference between having a vegetable garden or shade tree.
Master Gardeners have a tremendous opportunity through all their networks to provide homeowners and landowners with unbiased research based information they can understand and use immediately to conserve water and irrigate with rainwater to maintain a beautiful landscape, grow vegetables, keep a shade tree alive, reduce demand on water treatment plants and aquifers, prevent runoff and erosion and slowly apply the rainwater into the ground instead of rainwater creating erosion and pollution.
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension will train you to share this information with other Master Gardeners, homeowners and landowners through presentations and demonstrations. The training will teach you about rainwater harvesting from 55 gallon rain barrels up to large home or commercial systems, explain how to hold a rain barrel class in your county, work with water utility providers, groundwater conservation districts, stormwater departments and groups in your county, and provide the support you need to teach others.