{"id":233,"date":"2022-08-24T13:17:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T17:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/?page_id=233"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:16:04","slug":"qr-codes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/qr-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayes Park Rain Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2023\/05\/Group-1.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteer group photo by Hayes Park sign\" class=\"wp-image-528\" style=\"width:597px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2023\/05\/Group-1.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2023\/05\/Group-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2023\/05\/Group-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2023\/05\/Group-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2023\/05\/Group-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hayes Park Rain Stormwater Infiltration Garden is a project that was begun in late December of 2021 and represents a partnership between four major partners; the City of Adairsville, the Friends of Hayes Park, Keep Bartow Beautiful (a department of Bartow County Government), and the Bartow County Master Gardeners. \u00a0This garden represents a practical\u00a0method for mitigating stormwater. It is a method that can be used by developers and homeowners.\u00a0 Most importantly, it is only feet away from Adairsville Elementary School, providing an accessible environmental laboratory for teachers to teach and students to learn STEM related subjects. Children have an innate tendency to explore. Having access to a fully functioning rain\/infiltration garden will nurture that tendency by supporting learning through sensory stimulation (look, see, feel) that engages whole brain learning &#8211; an essential element of STEM &#8211; Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. \u00a0\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This garden is also a demonstration of many native plant varieties that provide support for pollinator species. &#8220;Natives are plants that are a part of the balance of nature that has developed over hundreds or thousands of years in a particular region or ecosystem.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<em>USDA &#8211; United States Department of Agriculture.<\/em>\u00a0The root systems of native plants\u00a0are very deep. This is important to control soil erosion. In fact, native plants often have greater biomass below the surface than above. These deep roots help them to withstand both drought and wet conditions.\u00a0 Support of pollinator species is also important. Scientists estimate that one out of every three\u00a0<em>bites<\/em>\u00a0of food we\u00a0<em>eat<\/em>\u00a0exists because of animal\u00a0<em>pollinators<\/em>\u00a0like\u00a0<em>bees<\/em>, butterflies and moths, birds and bats. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hayes Park Rain Stormwater Infiltration Garden is a project that was begun in late December of 2021 and represents a partnership between four major partners; the City of Adairsville, the Friends of Hayes Park, Keep Bartow Beautiful (a department of Bartow County Government), and the Bartow County Master Gardeners. \u00a0This garden represents a practical\u00a0method [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-with-sidebar","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-233","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}