Collecting Stormwater for Resilient Gardens with Marilee Kuhlmann

The rainy season is upon us! Find ways to enlist nature to partner with us so our native gardens can thrive with limited external inputs in our climate extremes., using stormwater as a resource.

Join us online for an overview on rain water harvesting. We'll explore the many ways you can safely capture rain water for use in your California native garden. We will review many projects with simple systems like digging a shallow impression in the soil to infiltrate the rain getting into some more complex solutions and moving on to understand fully automated harvesting systems that use cisterns (tanks) with smart intelligence to determine the most efficient ways to use the harvest.

This class will be held online and recorded. Zoom login instructions will be included in the reminder emails. Registered students will have access to a recording of the class for 2 weeks after the live event.

Marilee Kuhlmann is a native Californian who has spent her youth playing in native meadows next to her house, climbing oaks, and body surfing at Zuma beach. Observing all the changes in this region throughout the years is the driving force in her passion to create landscapes that have a deep appreciation and connection to place.

Marilee is a Landscape contractor and founding principal at the Urban Water Group, Inc. a Los Angeles based Landscape Architecture Design Build firm. The award-winning projects range from small gardens to large estates. These resilient landscapes incorporate climate appropriate planting designs and collection of rainwater for both infiltration or capture for reuse with irrigation. She has participated in award-winning rainwater harvesting projects, LEED projects, water conservation demonstration gardens for public water agencies and gardens funded by Santa Monica Sustainable Landscape Grants, Turf rebates and the Los Angeles city utility agency pilot cistern project.

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