Rain Containers – ELY110

2021-07-21T00:39:24-04:00By Ben Hale|DIY landscaping, Easy Living Yards Podcast, Ecological Landscaping|

Why you already love rain containers but just didn’t know it yet…

Show Notes

Why you should consider rain containers

Whether you call them rain barrels, rain containers, or rain catchment systems, capturing the rain provides healthy water for your landscape and helps reduce our burden on stressed stormwater systems. Win-win-win! Here’s how to do your part in helping reduce your burden on our water systems, as simple or intricate […]

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Five Super Cool Ideas for your Rain Garden

2021-05-19T12:24:52-04:00By Ben Hale|DIY Landscape Design, Drought Resistant Landscaping, Easy Landscaping Ideas|

Look, I’m going to cut to the chase. No beating around the bush. Because I know you’re cool and you would do the same for me.

So here it is.

All the cool kids are doing it. So you should too.

You need to get yourself a RAIN GARDEN in your yard. Stat.

No idea what we’re talking about? That’s cool too.

Rain gardens are simply a planned retention and infiltration area for runoff.

That’s it. Everything else is details.

What can […]

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Get Your Free Water Supply Now!

2021-07-17T22:35:29-04:00By Ben Hale|DIY Landscape Design|

Here’s how you get your free water: install a rainwater harvesting system!

I know, you’re thinking it’s easy for me to say. Heck, where I’m from in Ohio, we get 42” of rain each year! Of course a rain barrel or rain tank makes sense. But you might live in the southwest US. There’s not enough rain to make it worth it.

Ha! Gotcha good! No matter where you live, especially in dry regions, rainwater harvesting systems […]

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Stormwater Management in the Suburbs

2021-07-17T22:17:39-04:00By Ben Hale|DIY Landscape Design, Drought Resistant Landscaping, Ecological Landscaping|

What to do with stormwater in your landscape and the greater landscape

So I have an infomercial question for you today.

Do you want to cut your water bill and usage by 50%? Stick around and I’ll show you the no-brainer solution! But wait, there’s more! You’ll get several other bonus tips at no additional fee!

Just ten easy payments….

I’ll stick to blogging.

With all this talk on stormwater, I have broken stormwater management into segments based on geographical […]

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Must-Have Strategies for Urban Stormwater Mitigation

2017-06-14T13:27:11-04:00By Ben Hale|Ecological Landscaping|

How we can redesign urban stormwater systems

As described in my previous blog post, there is an increasing need for better handling of our precipitation and its transition to runoff. There are numerous benefits from proper management of stormwater before it leaves our landscape. Here, I’ll take you through some of the issues with the design of our current systems, then to what are characteristics of an ideal stormwater management system, and finally to several […]

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Must-Have Strategies for Stormwater Mitigation

2018-02-01T11:20:23-05:00By Ben Hale|Ecological Landscaping|

A call to action for designing stormwater systems in our landscape and the world around us

The day this post comes out marks the one day of the year where we celebrate the land we walk upon. We ignore it the other 360-something days, but not today. Today is special so we can celebrate Earth and all of its wonderful natural resources.

Happy Earth Day everyone!

But sadly today is not special. Today is just another ordinary day. […]

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