We turned weeds into wildflowers & pavement into oases!
Planting rain, community, & ecology in the hood.
Discover how to create a vibrant, food-producing, and wildlife-friendly neighborhood native plant forest with free irrigation strategies and forested traffic calming. This video showcases how even in the Sonoran Desert, roof & street runoff can be utilized for free water WITHOUT TANKS or pipes, promoting sustainable living and green infrastructure. Learn about how to foster a thriving rain-irrigated native food forest in your community, along with how to better identify and encourage multi-use native plants (the plants that co-evolved with your local climate, soils, & wildlife), while removing the invasive non-native plants.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
1:27 Non-native, invasive London rocket mustard (Sisymbrium irio)
1:39 Native globemallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua)
1:54 hula hoe & how to use weeds as mulch BEFORE they seed
2:34 Native Hoary bowlesia (Bowlesia incana)
2:52 Native Common Fiddleneck (Amsinckia menziesii intermedia)
3:03 Harvesting roof runoff within public rain gardens for free irrigation
3:19 Non-native, invasive Stock (Matthiola parviflora)
3:29 Native California poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
3:34 Non-native, invasive Cheeseweed (Malva parviflora)
3:48 Advantages of native plants for native pollinators and other wildlife. Native blue palo verde (Parkinsonia florida)
4:08 Native solitary bee species and birds supported by staghorn cholla & other native cacti
4:37 Non-native, invasive sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus)
4:51 When I remove weeds, I SEED
6:16 Native Fairy duster (Calliandra eriophylla)
6:20 Natve Greythorn (Ziziphus obtusifolia)
6:23 Native Red justicia (Justicia candicans)
6:30 Native Yierba de venado (Porophyllum gracile)
7:01 Native wolfberry (Lycium fremontii) – our native gogi berry
7:20 Native wildflower sign to help with plant identification
8:21 PlantNet app for plant identification
9:20 Native Penstemon parryi
10:48 Native Desert senna (Senna covesii)
11:03 Native Desert ironwood (Olneya tesota)
11:09 Native Desert broom (Baccharis sarothroides)
11:13 Native Barrel cactus (Ferocactus wislizeni)
11:30 Native birds our neighborhood forest is supporting
12:08 Native Canyon hackberry (Celtis reticulata)
12:28 Native solitary bee houses and habitat
12:37 Water-harvesting traffic-calming chicane creation & transformation
13:24 Native Desert plantain (Plantago ovata)
13:29 Water-harvesting traffic-calming traffic circle creation & transformation
14:06 Native Foothills palo verde (Parkinsonia microphyllum)
14:37 Native Arizona twist flower (Streptanthus carinatus ssp. Arizonicus)
14:50 Native bladderpod (Physaria gordonii)
15:14 How to tell native and non-native annual mustards apart
16:25 Why native plants are better for butterflies, moths (their caterpillars), and birds
17:25 Why invasive, non-native plants out compete natives – they are not edible to much of the native wildlife, and thus they don’t have natural controls or native beneficiaries
18:14 Non-native, invasive Mediterranean grass (Schismus barbatus and S. arabicus)
18:42 Feeding non-native, invasive weeds to goats and chickens
18:58 Native wildflower mixes from Wildlands Restoration
19:43 First, plant the rain. Then planting the wildflower seed at beginning of rainy season.
21:14 Chicanes full of harvested stormwater
21:25 Native Gooding’s verbena (Glandularia gooddingii)
21:30 How to know what plant to plant where
21:45 CAUTION: Only use plants for food and medicine when you are sure you have correctly identified them, and you know how to process and utilize. Native brittlebush (Encelia farinosa)
22:03 Native Sonoran Justicia (Justicia sonorae) & more resources
22:22 Tucson Bird Alliance Habitat at Home program
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RAIN-IRRIGATED NEIGHBORHOOD NATIVE FOOD FORESTRY resources
https://dunbarspringneighborhoodforesters.org/
Evolving TUCSON MULTI-USE NATIVE PLANT LIST – recommended plants for use in Sonoran Desert green infrastructure
https://tucsonnativeplants.com/
RAIN GARDEN PLANTING ZONES – what to plant and where
https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/resources/rain-garden-planting-zones/
PLANTS FOR GOATS & CHICKENS
https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/resources/multi-use-plant-lists-for-water-harvesting-landscapes-goat-chickens/
RESOURCES FOR HUMAN (and other animals) USES OF NATIVE PLANTS
https://dunbarspringneighborhoodforesters.org/plant-resources/ethnobotanical-human-uses-of-plants-resources/
INVASIVE NON-NATIVE PLANTS TO REMOVE in the Sonoran Desert
https://dunbarspringneighborhoodforesters.org/plant-resources/invasive-plants-to-remove/
STORMWATER & STREET RUNOFF HARVESTING
https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/water-harvesting/harvests-of-different-waters/stormwater-street-runoff-harvesting/
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