Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. You can double the disconnection benefits if you direct your gutter to a rainwater harvesting cistern or rain barrel.

Now a local agency, the Inland Empire Resource Conservation District, is offering rain barrels that attach to rain gutters and can be diverted to provide the deep watering that trees require ...

Rain barrels When people get a rain barrel, the hardest part is cutting the gutter in order to attach it to the rain barrel, said Diane Dorsch of Derby, a master gardener who started making rain ...

The 2017 landscape season is the first full growing season rain barrels are legal to use in Colorado. Since May is typically our rainiest month, there’s still time to implement a rain-barrel system.

Raritan Headwaters Association, the nonprofit watershed watchdog, will offer “how to” workshops on building rain barrels and bluebird nest boxes.

You can double the disconnection benefits if you direct your gutter to a rainwater harvesting cistern or rain barrel. Rainwater harvesting not only reduces runoff, but it also serves as a free ...