Master Gardener Advanced Training Water Resources
Advanced Concepts
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Water Smart Landscape Design
Day 1: Landscape Planning and Design
Learning Objectives:
a) Understand the water cycle and watershed concepts. (Where does water come from and where it goes)
b) Be able to conduct a landscape assessment for Water Smart management
c) Design a water smart landscape
Topics covered: Planning/design, soil improvement, appropriate plant selection, practical turf areas, types of irrigation, use of mulches, stormwater and runoff.
Activities:
Assess a landscape, design it, and implement the design.
Day 2: Finer Points of Landscape Design (function, maintenance and management)
Learning Objectives:
a) Identify common pollution sources in landscape
b) Understand stormwater runoff collection, water divergence and on-site treatment
c) Understand efficient irrigation use and appropriate application of irrigation water (how to maintain/manage an irrigation system)
d) Understand how BMPs can reduce the impact of common landscape pollutants
Activities:
Rain harvesting (rain barrels etc.), irrigation audits, equipment, and systems, rain gardens, activities using IPM and BMPs
Day 3: Making the Connection: Our Landscape, Our Stream, Our Watershed
Learning Objectives:
a) Understand non-point source pollution in watersheds and your responsibilities
b) Use visual, chemical and biological characteristics of the stream to measure health (any surface water)
c) List community volunteer opportunities – taking action!!!!
Activities:
Do visual, chemical and biological (macro invertebrate and bacteria) assessment.
Meeting Notes: