Sunrise Park Pollinator Corridor

📍1460 Sunrise Pkwy, Petaluma, CA 94954

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WELCOME TO A NEW POLLINATOR CORRIDOR NEAR THE NIGHBORHOOD GARDEN

Daily Acts collaborated with the City of Petaluma Parks and Recreation Department to transform 8,400 square feet of Sunrise Park’s lawn into a beautiful water-wise garden with 695 native and climate adaptive plants. Now when neighbors walk through this park, they will most certainly have a better chance of spotting local butterflies, bees, and birds, which we hope inspires them to make changes in their own landscape. In addition to providing critical habitat and food for local wildlife, this park will be now saving 166,470 gallons of water per year!

HISTORY OF THE GARDEN

The Sunrise Community Garden was established at Sunrise Park in 2011 by Petaluma Bounty, and tended to by neighborhood gardeners and Petaluma Parks and Recreation. The rest of the space was mainly grass and used for walking dogs.
Prior to designing this garden space, Daily Acts held a community meeting to welcome people who frequented the park to give their input on changes they’d like to see made in the space. With the help of Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, this community feedback was utilized to choose plants and create a landscape design.

The project area for Sunrise Park focused on converting turf to a water-wise landscape in two sections of the sidewalk mow strip at both ends of the park. See the project area image below. Daily Acts and the City of Petaluma Parks and Recreation Department want this pilot project to support best practices and maintenance strategies for future non-functional turf conversion projects.

As part of Assembly Bill 1572 which was passed in fall 2023, the City of Petaluma will be required to phase out the use of potable water on non-functional turf located at commercial, industrial and institutional properties beginning January 1st 2027. This site will model what is possible while preparing for this change.

With funding from the Department of Water Resources, Daily Acts’ has been able to successfully convert under-utilized areas of lawn in Petaluma parks and residences into water-wise gardens through the Land Resilience Partnership Program. These gardens, which previously required year-round water, are now native and climate adaptive gardens that enhance beauty, create habitat, and conserve water resources.

PLANT LIBRARY

Take yourself on a tour of our demonstration garden by using our plant library below to identify plants as you go! If you’re interested in using some of these plants at your home garden, this is a great opportunity to see what they look like once they are established. Learn all about our favorite water-wise plants including whether they fruit and/or flower, their sunlight needs, and their watering needs.

LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION IMPACTS

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sqft converted from lawn to climate resilient pollinator habitat
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plants installed to provide habitat and food for pollinators
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gallons of potable water saved each year

THANK YOU to the City of Petaluma Parks and Recreation Department for supporting the maintenance at Sunrise Park and supporting our mission to make the City of Petaluma more climate resilient, one project at a time!

THANK YOU to the Land Resilience Partnership for making these projects possible!

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