Rain Barrel Workshops

Waterworks is again partnering with Newport News Public Works and the Virginia Extension Office to offer monthly rain barrel making workshops in 2012. For $40 you can attend a workshop and assemble a 55-gallon rain barrel to take home. You sign up and show up, we'll provide the materials, then you make it and take it home!

Saturday, February 11
at the VA Cooperative Extension Office
739 Thimble Shoals Blvd. Newport News

Saturday, March 10
at the VA Cooperative Extension Office
739 Thimble Shoals Blvd. Newport News

Saturday, April 21
at Christopher Newport University's Annual
Garden Symposium

Call the Virginia Extension Office at  (757) 591-4838 for details and to register for a workshop. If you would like to try your hand at making your own rain barrel, check out these two brochures provided by the Master Gardeners: : Make a Rain Barrel (381 kb) and Installing and Maintaining your Rain Barrel (314 kb).

See you in 2012!