This silent auction item will be presented for final bidding at our annual picnic on Thursday, August 6th.

Instillation of an up cycled wine barrel rain barrel and a miniature rain garden using native plants at your home or business, provided by Perennial Harvest.

One wooded upcycled wine rain barrel with brass and steel parts and a pond-stone lined miniature rain garden featuring native plants (will have a Michigan Native Certification). The overflow from the rain barrel will feed the rain garden, which will include 4 species of native plants: swamp milkweed, blue flag iris, orange coneflower, and white turtlehead (3 of each). 

About Perennialll Harvest:

Serving the Grand Traverse area, Perennial Harvest is an advocate for, instructor in, and implementer of edible and ecological landscaping. To summarize, edible and medicinal plants are often very beneficial to wildlife including birds and pollinating and beneficially-predatory insects. Additionally, emphasizing native plants means less maintenance and water use for you. If you care less about edibility, then sit back and look for butterflies. With landscaping through Perennial Harvest, your pollinator garden can not only rival others’, but it can also contain an array of personal benefits.