Join the ever growing community of Master Rain Gardeners across Southeast Michigan! Protect your home against flooding and help birds, bees and butterflies with a RAIN garden! You’ll learn *everything* the instructors know about rain gardens. Registration is now open for winter 2024 virtual course beginning Jan 25th from 10am to noon. Sign up now for the early bird pricing. Select communities could register for FREE– click the link below to see if you may qualify!
Leave the leaves is a message about what you can do in your own yard to help out endangered pollinators and other beneficial insects over the winter. It’s so easy! You can help the good guys MORE this year by doing LESS work! Just leave the leaves right where they fall – especially in shrub and flower beds. A lot of beautiful and important living things spend their winter in and under the leaves. By letting them be, you can save the bees!
Do you have a rain garden, rain barrel, or pollinator garden in your yard? Are you interested in seeing what green solutions your neighbors have created? It’s time to visit the MAP!
Explore the new Rainscaping in Southeast Michigan map to discover where rain gardens and other green solutions are in your neighborhood. Then, put YOUR “dot” on the map as you join the green solution crowd.
Will You Double or Triple Your Impact for a Cleaner Rouge River?
If you are in a position to give, will you consider making a gift on Tuesday, November 28, so that Bosch and the Friends of the Rouge Board of Directors can TRIPLE your impact and love?
Your hometown River faces tough challenges: heavy rains & flooding, yucky pollution, intense heat, loss of good wildlife habitat and trees. Here’s the great news: You are just the Friend your River needs.
Now thru November 28th – your gift will be matched and doubled. And on November 28th, Giving Tuesday, the first $1120 in gifts will be tripled. For three times the new trees, three times the new Michigan native plants in rain gardens, three times the impact, and three times the love! Your clean water future starts here – with you. Will you a bring clean water future home to your Rouge River?
