Healthy Yards 101
Learn how your yard can adapt to climate change and support healthy waterways by making small changes.
This page contains educational resources to help you beautify and naturalize your yard. By making small changes around your yard, you can improve how it handles runoff and help our landscapes handle the increasing rainfall that will be happening due to climate change.
The resources below are designed with the DIYer in mind. If you are looking for a contractor to help with your healthy yard journey, check out our Contractors List as a starting point.
Maintenance reminders mailing list
Healthy yard maintenance is an important part of caring for our watersheds and ensuring sustainable features like rain barrels, rain gardens and infiltration galleries keep up with the storms to come. It’s easy to forget about maintenance steps with everything else going on. That’s why we’ve started this quarterly email.
Sign up for the Reep Green Solutions maintenance mailer and we’ll help you remember key maintenance steps by sending you reminders four times a year: spring, summer, fall and winter.
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Rain gardens
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Healthy Yards DIY: A Beginners Guide to Building a Rain Garden
Tackle a rain garden project on your own property – reducing community flood risk, improving local water quality, increasing biodiversity, and beautifying your yard.
Plants Make Us Happy | Simple, Sustainable Gardening Tips From A Landscape Designer At Home
There is a certain time each day when the reality of being at home all day, every day with my three young children starts to feel overwhelming. Weeks into this daily
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Trees
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Planting Trees Remains a Top Priority for Local Residents
A tree planting partnership between Reep Green Solutions and the City of Cambridge and City of Kitchener enters its third year of impact. Kitchener and
An Open Letter to the Minister of Finance | COVID Recovery + Climate Action
You asked how to support workers and families that are struggling. Our response is to recommend that the government help workers and families make their homes more comfortable and affordable,
New subsidized tree-planting program launches for Cambridge homeowners | News Release
New subsidized program will pick the perfect location on your property, plant it and teach you how to care for it going forward. Cambridge, ON.
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Infiltration galleries
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Permeable paving
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Permeable pavement helps water soak into your property
Did you know that in a typical home, approximately 30-50% of the surfaces are impenetrable to water? This means that water cannot pass through into
Rain barrels
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Sustainable Living Newsletter
Help make sustainable living the norm by learning about sustainable homes, healthy yards and how to reduce your impact.
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