Transition Town Media, the Media Environmental Advisory Council (EAC), and the Stroud Water Research Center are co-sponsoring a talk by Vivian Williams on “Gardening for Rain – Re-Visioning Your Garden“. Media and many other towns in the Chester-Ridley-Crum watershed have huge problems with stormwater flooding and the degradation of streams...

In the October 7th working meeting, Peter Alyanakian announced that the Environmenal Advisory Council had installed Rain Gardens by the Stone Cottage in Media. A Rain Garden is simply a dug-out section of earth where rain from home gutters is sent, creating a natural, self-watering garden which receives additional watering even from light rains. Environmentally, a...