Field Trip – Rainwater Harvesting and Native Plants
Saturday 23 August 2025, 730 am to 930 am
Meet on the northwest side of the Casa Del Rio parking lot at 1060 S. Pantano Road (one block north of 22nd Street, west side of Pantano)
Limit: 12 participants. RSVP to tucsonaznpstrips@gmail.com
Join Jennifer Patton and Ben Wilder of Wilder Landscape Architects on a tour of a recently constructed streetside stormwater harvesting project. This project, funded by the City of Tucson’s Storm to Shade program, features twenty-four species of container grown native plants including four species of grasses, and a seed mix consisting of an additional thirty-three native species (12 of those grasses). Learn how the City is putting roadway runoff to work on City-owned parcels to grow shade.
Wilder will provide an overview of the project, and provide identification tips for the following grasses that you will see:
If we are lucky, there will also be successful germination of the numerous native plant species that were seeded, and we can have fun identifying those as well.
We will not park or walk on busy roadways but bring a reflective vest if you have one.
To learn more about Storm to Shade and see the projects that are underway, visit https://climateaction.tucsonaz.gov/pages/gsi
