Sheridan Neighborhood Raingarden Installation and Maintenance Program
This year Sheridan Neighborhood Organization is teaming up with the nonprofit, Metro Blooms, to help residents who would like to install a raingarden or have an existing raingarden and would like a maintenance help! SNO is covering the entire cost of each project, which means this is a great opportunity for YOU! Up to 3 properties in the neighborhood will be able to receive new raingardens and up to 10 participants who have existing raingardens can sign up for maintenance support.
All participants will receive an onsite consultation with a Metro Blooms landscape designer. Those receiving a new raingarden will also receive a raingarden design, and installation by Metro Blooms, a $2000 value! Metro Blooms will work with the Conservation Corps of MN to excavate the raingardens, haul away extra soil, and mulch. Metro Blooms will also order all of the plants and provide them to participants at a ‘plant pick up’ event. Participants will be responsible for planting their raingarden according to Metro Blooms’ design.
For those participants who join the raingarden maintenance program, your consultation with our landscape designers will focus specifically on maintenance for your existing raingarden. You will receive an onsite review of existing conditions: weed and existing native plant identification, sediment and watering impacts review as well as best maintenance practices. Educational resources and hands on support will also be provided to assist participants with weed removal within the time allotted, and the designer will make a list of any replacement plants and mulch (if needed) to be ordered at consult.
Consultations will all take place during the remaining weeks of summer of 2021. Registration forms for receiving a raingarden in 2021 closed on August 15th.
Lottery Drawing
We had 7 Sheridan residents enter for 3 new raingarden installation spots and 12 Sheridan residents enter for 10 raingarden maintenance spots. In the event that a lottery winner is unresponsive or unable to receive a raingarden, Metro Blooms will reach out to the other entrants until all spots are filled.
The 2021 New Raingarden Installation recipients are:
- Nicole Pappas Stanoch
- Mackenzie Heinrichs
- Heidi Niedernhofer
And the 2021 Raingarden Maintenance recipients are:
- Amity Foster
- Sally Waterman
- Grace D'Welle
- Joy Smallfield
- Elena Kallevig
- Linnea Hardon
- Lee Lyon
- Karen Charlson
- Sam DiVita
- Kevin Petrie
Congrats! Like this program? Let us know! We need your input to decide how we allocate funding every year. Come to the next community meeting or send us an email at sno@sheridanneighborhood.org.