Colorado Columbines in the gardens around the headquarters of the northern water in Berthoud. (Heather van Benthem/The Surveyor)
By Heather van Bentheme
The surveyor
After a six -year break due to pandemic and construction, Northern Water is home to his nature conservation gardener on Saturday, June 28th, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The day includes garden tours, interactive activities for children, seminars for adults, focal trolleys, prices and plants.
Working cars, equipment and maybe even a boat are pulled out so that the children “play around with our water quality equipment”, Kelley Puga, the common communication specialist. “Wear sunscreen, wear a hat, bring a water bottle,” she continued. With the exception of service animals, visitors are asked to leave their pets at home.
Northern water clerk from left to right, Kelley Puga, Lindsay Nerad and intern Cassandrea Steiner enjoy the sunshine in the afternoon. (Heather van Benthem/The Surveyor)
Seminar topics include sustainable landscape management, trees for colorado and forest fire. Northern Water takes up the fair as an opportunity for public relations. “I think the biggest reason is to use the word carefully,” said Nerad. “Water protection does not have to be a boring task. We can learn together.”
The nature conservation gardens are located behind the northern water building in the 220 Water Ave. The area is accessible to the public every day from sunrise to sunset. There are sections with garden layout ideas and a sign of scanning to get information from different groups that offer pre-planned garden kits. There is also a place with areas of different types of lawn so that homeowners can see what they look like.
“It was designed in such a way that it inspires people to carry out transitions in their landscape, to speak with various landscape styles and taste values that are water angles,” said Nerad.
Puga spoke about the upcoming trade fair and confirmed: “We plan to make this again an annual event.” “Inspiration, motivation, education,” added Nerad.
Visit https://www.northerwater.org/about-us/education-and-outreach/events to get more information and plan to spend time in a beautiful local place. For every visit in June, the aspens were in full sheet, while large rose and shock orange bushes smelled the scene.