Here are 3 ideas on what you could spend some time planning this winter:
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Plan a rain garden or native plant area in your yard. Where has water accumulated? Where could you redirect a drain spout from your house?
Check out the Native Plant tab as part of this blog. Native plants have many benefits - both in terms of cleaning stormwater, adding beauty to your yard, reducing yard maintenance (no mowing), and providing food for pollinators. Here is a Rain Garden manual with some ideas. Learn about the zones of a rain garden and what plants could be planted in each. Here is a site to learn about plants per zone.
Since we aren't seeing blossoms now outdoors - visit websites or library books on native plants. The colors are fun - even if we can't take in the nice smells of some of the flowers. That will have to wait until you have them planted in your yard and the time for blossoming has arrived.
2. Cleaning Time. Another winter prep activity could be on cleaning out unwanted materials in your garage, basement or under the sink. Spring cleaning - or at least on some mild winter days - can be good to take care of items - even unwanted medicines. Are the pills expired? Do you not need that can of partial can of paint? Superior has an agreement with WLSSD in Duluth to bring items to their Hazardous Waste Facility. Here is our disposal guide. Here is information on disposal from WLSSD. Here are their hours.
You also may want to stop for a car wash. Commercial car washes are designed to capture grit and oil from your vehicle. Any time of the year - commercial car washes are the preferred practice to wash your car without creating stormwater runoff and sending pollution or debris down storm drains and out to nearby streams.
3. Event Planning Here is information on planning on setting up recycling at special events:
http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/recycling/awayfromhome.html
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