Design Guides

Easy-to-follow, do-it-yourself guides that explain how to apply tools like rain gardens, rain water harvesting, climate appropriate plants and more

Have you already joined the LRP and feel inspired to take steps now to build resilience at home, in your neighborhood, & throughout your watershed?

The Land Resilience Partnership provides free, downloadable design guides. The design guides include directions on how to design, install, and maintain local on-site tools that can help you build resilience and contribute to a healthier watershed.

View & Download Free Design Guides

Design guides are available in CA wide and County specific versions:

  • CA wide design guides are applicable across California

  • Regionally adapted versions include recommended plants that are appropriate to the place and use. So far, LRP has area specific guides for Ventura, Sonoma, and Tuolumne Counties.

(Click on the buttons below to download the design guides)

Mulching

Learn more about building healthy soils for yourself and your community

Rainwater Harvesting

Learn more about the process of harvesting rainwater

Rain Gardens

Learn more about building rain gardens for your landscapes

Greywater Laundry to Landscape

Learn more about greywater recycling systems from laundry to landscape

Curb Cuts

Learn how to slow, clean and infiltrate storm water with curb cuts

Bioswales

Learn how to slow, clean and infiltrate storm water with bioswales

Climate Appropriate Planting (CAP)

Learn more about choosing the right plants for your region and landscapes.

Pollinator Corridors

Learn more about the plants that support pollinator species.

Wildfire Mitigation

Visit the wildfire mitigation toolkit to learn about vegetation management strategies for coastal central and southern California.