Petaluma City Hall 🌍 Earth Day Landscape Transformation
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
On Earth Day, April 22nd, 2026, Daily Acts and over 50 volunteers, including city staff, worked together to add 514 plants to the 7,275 sq ft front landscape of Petaluma City Hall. With this transformation finally complete, this space will be more supportive to local pollinators, recharge more groundwater via 3 rain gardens, and ultimately create a beautiful space that can be admired and enjoyed by all!
This project was years in the making, so how did we get here?
In November of 2025, a small group of volunteers worked to sheet mulch the landscape in order to prepare for planting in the spring. This process helps to compost-in-place any grasses and weeds that already existed on site, helps retain soil moisture, and adds nutrients into the soil which gives newly installed plants a better chance of establishing a healthy root system. After 5 months, this created ideal conditions for planting.
On Earth Day in 2025, Daily Acts held a planting day to add native and water-wise plants to a small corridor on either side of the main entrance of Petaluma City Hall. Prior to this planting day, sheet mulching had been done in the Fall of 2024. One year later, this section of the garden has grown in beautifully!
Petaluma City Hall Main Entrance
July 2025
April 2026
Daily Acts and the City of Petaluma
Since 2009, there have been numerous efforts in collaboration with the City of Petaluma to create living examples of how to conserve water and create native habitat gardens through sheet mulching, irrigation conversions, rain gardens, and installing climate appropriate and native plants. Here are a few of the gardens we have worked together to install:
- Petaluma City Hall
- Petaluma Library Living Learning Landscape
- Cavanaugh Center Food Forest
- Tahola Lane Pocket Park
- Sunrise Park
This special event was a collective effort put together by the power of many hands and hearts. Daily Acts’ staff are so grateful to everyone who has been a part of the process, from partners at the City of Petaluma who make these transformations possible, to fellow staff and contractors who have created and implemented the design that is the true foundation for these revitalizations. And of course, Daily Acts thanks the incredible volunteers, whose dedication to conservation efforts makes a lasting impact on our landscapes and communities and makes this work possible.
Volunteers at Petaluma City Hall, April 2026
