Irrigation

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Marin Garden Walks is a partnership between UC Marin Master Gardeners and Marin Municipal Water District to provide homeowners in Marin with information and advice on improving their irrigation practices to help conserve Marins precious water resources.

Orange County averages about 13 inches of rain per year (Metropolitan Water District of Orange County), which puts us a few inches away from being a desert, which averages ten inches of rain per year. Recent drought years have focused attention on the amount of water we use in our landscape.

Students from the UCSB Latino Business Association learned about planting bare-root fruit trees at Mesa Harmony Garden.

While rains in February and March have contributed to rising reservoirs and mountain snowpack, the fact remains that California is in a drought.