This past summer, we teamed up with neighborhoods, cities, and the Conservation Corps of Minnesota & Iowa (CCM) to install raingardens in residents’ yards and teach them about sustainable landscaping practices along the way. These efforts were part of our Neighborhood of Raingardens program, which aims to make clean-water planting projects easier and more affordable…
Last summer was the first time we did a Neighborhood of Raingardens program in one community with a major focus on maintenance. The Sheridan Neighborhood Association in Minneapolis wanted to provide previous participants with guidance on caring for their raingardens. So we offered a “raingarden refresh” program. During a one-and-a-half-hour visit, we checked a participant’s…
We help maintain raingardens and stormwater practices for several Minneapolis Public Housing Authority properties. Maintenance work includes inspecting and cleaning up the raingardens (including weeding and caring for native plantings),… Read More →
One thing interns are sure to learn about at Metro Blooms is raingardens. This summer we hosted Althea Kuzniewski, an environmental studies major at the University of Minnesota. Althea came to us through the U’s Institute on the Environment, in an internship supported by Ecolab. She had the job of visiting and assessing raingardens we…
A raingarden in a traffic diverter, in Southeast Minneapolis. This project involved putting in bollards (the posts) which helps direct traffic properly. Partners include Southeast Como Improvement Association, Mississippi Watershed… Read More →
Residents and other community members helped us plant this raingarden at Riverside Plaza on June 18, 2019. This video, by Yordanose Solomone, Metro Blooms Equitable Engagement Manager, celebrates the raingarden’s first birthday and features a song written for it by Riverside composer Ardo Muse and singer Abdihakiin Aden Farrah.* It may be the first raingarden…
The Rapson Hall raingarden is designed to connect two existing overflow catch basins in a grassy bio-infiltration area in the courtyard outside of Rapson Hall at the University of Minnesota.… Read More →
This program was for installation of raingardens in the Ryan Lake Watershed in the Victory Neighborhood of North Minneapolis in 2013. Metro Blooms and the Victory Neighborhood Association identified sites… Read More →
The Schmidt Lake Improvement Association worked with Metro Blooms in 2011 and again in 2019 to protect water quality in the Schmidt Lake Watershed. Schmidt Lake flows to Bass Lake… Read More →
The Sheridan Neighborhood Organization and Metro Blooms have collaborated to provide raingardens to residents of the Sheridan neighborhood over several years, installing 31 raingardens in the neighborhood as of 2019.… Read More →
In two years, this successful partnership between the City of St. Louis Park Rainwater Rewards program and Metro Blooms has brought almost 50 raingardens to St. Louis Park yards since… Read More →
In 2015 and 2018, the Standish Ericsson Neighborhood Association (SENA) and Metro Blooms worked together to engage residents in practices protecting water quality. Ultimately, 32 raingardens were installed in the… Read More →
Metro Blooms and the Tangletown Neighborhood Association worked together to engage residents and install five raingardens in the neighborhood in 2015. This collaboration will be continuing.
This project was a partnership of the cities of Victoria and Shorewood to engage residents in efforts to improve water quality of Lake Virginia, an impaired body of water, by… Read More →
Metro Blooms works with CommonBond Communities, a nonprofit that provides opportunities for stable housing. Over the years, we have rehabilitated and maintained raingardens at two of their senior housing sites… Read More →
In 2015, the Holland Neighborhood Association partnered with Metro Blooms to install seven raingardens in the neighborhood. Nine raingardens were installed at residences and one at a business within the… Read More →
In 2015 and 2017, Metro Blooms teamed up with the Kenwood Neighborhood Organization to install raingardens on private property in the Kenwood Isles neighborhood. Thirty-five raingardens were installed. Conservation Corps… Read More →
The project focused on private property owners and involved a coordinated outreach effort, educational trainings, and the installation of raingardens in the Linden Hills Neighborhood of Minneapolis. In addition to… Read More →
Logan Park Neighborhood Association and Metro Blooms partnered to design and install 12 raingardens in the Logan Park neighborhood in 2018 and eight raingardens in 2019. Participants received a consultation… Read More →
In 2014, we partnered with the Longfellow Neighborhood Association for a Neighborhood of Raingardens, resulting in the installation of 10 raingardens. We led raingarden workshops and worked with the Conservation… Read More →
Metro Blooms and Marshall Terrace citizens have been partnering since 2016 to bring raingardens to neighborhood yards. In that time, 18 raingardens have been installed with the help of crews… Read More →
With funding from Hennepin County and the City of Minnetonka, and in partnership with the Minnetoga Lake Association, this project targeted properties draining to Lake Minnetoga for the implementation of… Read More →
With funding from Hennepin County, the Nokomis East Neighborhood Association worked with Metro Blooms to bring raingardens to residents of the Nokomis East neighborhoods. Eighteen raingardens were installed in 2019… Read More →
This project evaluated community outreach approaches through a pilot study of fast-tracked installation of over 100 raingardens in a 28-acre subwatershed draining to Powderhorn Lake in Minneapolis. Stormwater best management… Read More →
This project educated property owners about the benefits of raingardens and permeable pavement and help them install their own.
Metro Blooms worked with the Armatage Neighborhood Association to install 12 residential-scale raingardens in the neighborhood in the summer of 2018 to capture and infiltrate runoff, reduce pollution flowing to… Read More →
The Audubon Neighborhood Association and Metro Blooms have collaborated to provide raingardens to residents of the Audubon neighborhood since 2011, a long-time partnership that has resulted in more than 80… Read More →
The Bancroft Neighborhood Association and Metro Blooms teamed up in 2018 to help neighborhood residents install raingardens. Ten residents in Bancroft received a site consultation, design and raingarden installation. The… Read More →
The goal of this project was to provide an “Open Space Development Plan” taking into account the goals of the Bryant Neighborhood, including improving streetscapes and multi-modal transportation opportunities, providing… Read More →
