Rainwater Harvesting

Rain Barrels

Harvest rainwater using your very own Rain Barrel ! After two years of tweaking the design and hearing feedback from our users, we are satisfied with the quality of our barrels. We offer our thanks to the Coca Cola Company for their generosity because their food-grade barrels are the foundation of our rain barrels.

Download our order form, our Frequently Asked Questions sheet, or our Building Instructions & Installation guide.

You can even join us for one of our build your own rain barrel workshops offered through the Missouri Botanical Gardens adult classes program. We offer three workshops in the spring. See our events calendar for dates, and register with the Missouri Botanical Gardens.

https://www.mobot.org/iebms/coe/

And now…we offer a professionally manufactured rain barrel from Riversides. We feel this is the best looking most functional barrel on the market. Download our informational brochure / order form for more details. Note that we run two bulk orders: one in the spring and one in the fall.

Rain Gardens

Rain Gardens provide many of the environmental benefits of rain barrels, plus they work all year. We highly recommend retrofitting your roof drainage to include both concepts. To learn more, we'll save our breath and let our friends at the Kansas City 10,000 Rain Gardens Initiative and the Deer Creek Watershed Alliance (DCWA) tell you how. We also recommend a book available from Blue Thumb.

http://www.rainkc.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/home.showpage/pageID/2/index.htm

http://deercreekalliance.org/raingarden.aspx

http://bluethumb.org/raingardens/

Visit local rain gardens to see for yourself. The DCWA website provides information on gardens in Olivette, Ladue, and University City. If you're downtown, check out the City Garden (http://www.citygardenstl.org/index.php/plants/rain_garden.php) and the Operation Brightside demo garden (http://operationbrightside.org/) for beautiful examples of commercial scale gardens.