DIY Living Roof Workshop

Date range: 
May 23, 2010 - 11:00am - 4:00pm

Learn how to build a beautiful, low-water garden on top of your roof! We’ll show examples from around the world and discuss structural requirements, waterproofing, drainage, salvaged and low-cost materials, soil, plants, and maintenance.

Students will tour the Eco Casita's rain garden, map rainwater flows across the site, and learn how to integrate living roofs with rain barrels and water harvesting basins.

Then we'll finish and plant the Eco Casita’s 100 sq. ft, living roof.

Cost: $30-$100 sliding scale. Work trade available. Limit 12 students!

To register: waterunderground *at* gmail.com, or 510.406.9442.

About the instructors:

Ecological engineer and San Francisco Rainwater Harvesting Guide author Apryl Uncapher has designed living roofs on homes and commercial buildings.

Greywater Guerrillas co- founder Cleo Woelfle-Erskine teaches greywater reuse and rainwater harvesting workshops across North America and lives in the Eco Casita, which models low-cost sustainable water systems.

Submitted by Cleo on May 7, 2010 - 11:45am
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