Sustainable Landscaping
- Actions to Improve Water Quality
- Ten actions you can take to improve Minnesota's lakes, rivers and streams.
- Clean Air Landscaping
- Clean air landscaping is an approach that uses innovative landscape design and maintenance to minimize air pollution.
- Earth-Friendly Home Landscaping Guide
- Learn about earth-friendly home lanscaping practices, including low input lawn care, plant selection, rain gardens, composting and rain barrels.
- Earth-friendly Lawn Care Tips
- Follow these tips to have a great looking lawn and minimize your impact on the environment.
- Eco-Yards
- Hennepin County maintains two eco-yards where residents can learn about environmentally friendly, sustainable landscaping, including rain gardens, prairie plantings, fescue lawns, trees and shrubs and permeable pavers.
- Rain Barrels
- Rain barrels can be placed under a roof downspout to collect stormwater runoff that can be used for watering your lawn and gardens. This reduces runoff that carries pollutants into streams and rivers.
- Rain Gardens
- Rain gardens reduce runoff by helping water infiltrate into the ground rather than running off into storm sewers.
- Winter maintenance and salt use workshop
- Protect Minnesota's water resources by learning about selecting and properly applying deicers and other snow removal methods.