{"id":20173,"date":"2020-02-06T18:38:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T18:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=20173"},"modified":"2020-02-06T18:38:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T18:38:01","slug":"lawrence-county-conservation-district-creates-edible-rain-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=20173","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence County Conservation District Creates Edible Rain Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/LawrenceRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20174\" width=\"298\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/LawrenceRG.jpg 960w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/LawrenceRG-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/LawrenceRG-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><figcaption>The rain garden is planted and mulched. Photo provided by Lawrence County Conservation District.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lawrence County Conservation District (LCCD) created an edible rain garden for their 2019-20 Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Mini-grant Project.<\/p>\n<p>LCCD Watershed Specialist Mary Burris installed an edible rain garden at the Lower East Side Community Garden in conjunction with the Lower East Side Neighborhood Watch, Tri-County CleanWays, and DON Enterprises. Columbia Gas also provided volunteer labor and heavy machinery.<\/p>\n<p>The community garden feeds more than 50 families, and the edible rain garden will supply blueberries, elderberries, Aronia berries, strawberries, and rhubarb. The rain garden also serves as a stormwater best management practice to catch and slow runoff and will provide a location for education programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/epa_logo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19682\" width=\"95\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/epa_logo-2.jpg 336w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Financial and other support for this project is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lawrence County Conservation District (LCCD) created an edible rain garden for their 2019-20 Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Mini-grant Project. LCCD Watershed Specialist Mary Burris installed an edible rain garden at the Lower East Side Community Garden in conjunction with the Lower East Side Neighborhood Watch, Tri-County CleanWays, and DON Enterprises. Columbia Gas also provided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-mini-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}