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Location
Kenwood School, Minneapolis
Status
completed
Timeline
2015
Funding
Minnehaha Creek Watershed District
Partners & Contractors
Master Water Stewards, Conservation Corps of Minnesota
Program
Blooming Schoolyards
Tags
education, pollinator-focused, raingarden
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Kenwood School

Built in 2015, the Kenwood Poetry Stepping Stone Raingarden is a one-of-a-kind collaboration between Metro Blooms, Kenwood Elementary School, Minnehaha Creek Watershed District, artist Zoran Mojsilov and writer Louis Erdrich. A granite stepping-stone path meanders around four existing elm trees and eight small raingarden basins with infiltration columns filled with drainage rock.

The Conservation Corps of Minnesota & Iowa installed the raingardens, and fifth-graders and volunteers planted 840 plants. This garden area captures 2,400 gallons of stormwater runoff from the nearby playground  during a 1″ 24-hour rain event.

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