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.