Happy Birthday, Riverside Plaza Raingarden!
Residents and other community members helped us plant this raingarden at Riverside…
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Resilient Yards with Buzz
Blue Thumb’s Lawns to Legumes workshops teach sustainable practices that help make our yards more resilient.
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Metro Blooms
We partner with communities to create resilient landscapes and foster clean watersheds, embracing the values of equity and inclusion to solve environmental challenges.
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Designing a Resilient Landscape
Interested in a buzz-worthy yard but not sure how to get there? One of our landscape designers can help you explore the options during a virtual site consultation. Our team has experience with residential, commercial and multi-family site design.
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Building Community Capacity within Affordable Housing
Resident-centered design involves underserved populations in decision making and stewardship, ensuring projects benefit those most impacted.
Metro Blooms
We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that partners with communities to create resilient landscapes and foster clean watersheds, embracing the values of equity and inclusion to solve environmental challenges.
Blue Thumb
Metro Blooms is proud to coordinate the Blue Thumb program, a partnership promoting ecologically functional landscapes to reduce runoff and improve water quality.
Workshops
Our workshops, currently offered as webinars, will give you ideas to help you build a more resilient yard, including information on raingardens, native planting, creating habitat for pollinators, turf alternatives, healthy soils and more.
Consultations
Schedule a “virtual” visit with a landscape designer to identify issues and talk about opportunities on your property. A consultation is also the first step to a sustainable landscape design.
Equitable Engagement
Metro Blooms helps community stakeholders to be meaningfully involved in participatory clean water and green infrastructure projects that promote equity and environmental justice. Watch this video celebrating a raingarden’s first birthday in one of the communities where we’re working.
Landscape Maintenance
We offer onsite maintenance services to keep your stormwater management practices functioning and beautiful.
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