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Glendales Habitat Garden Education Program Anne Stahley astahley@glendaleaz.com 623-930-3550 Glendale Habitat Garden 1996 Glendale Xeriscape Demonstration Garden Brown St. 59 th Ave . Glendale Main Library Sonoran Desert: the

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Anne Stahley • astahley@glendaleaz.com • 623-930-3550

Glendale’s Habitat Garden Education Program

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Glendale Habitat Garden 1996

Glendale Xeriscape Demonstration Garden

Brown St. 59th Ave . Glendale Main Library

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Sonoran Desert: the importance of place

One of the most ecologically diverse deserts in the world! Dramatic changes in the desert landscape in Central Arizona

  • Farms and cities replacing open desert
  • Interrupted wildlife corridors and habitat loss

Emerging trends in urban gardening that align with gardening for wildlife

  • Use of native plants
  • Sustainable landscape practices

Department of Arizona Game & Fish Heritage Fund Grant

  • 3 year grant from 2013-2016 with required city match
  • Interpretive signage, design & print habitat garden

“how-to” booklet

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Glendale Garden Gathering

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Hotel Saguaro Puppet Shows

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Interpretive Signage – triangular kiosk

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Interpretive Signage – kid’s sign

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Habitat Garden Booklet

  • Practical habitat garden “how-to” guide for

Sonoran Desert dwellers

  • Defines a habitat
  • Stresses importance of pollinators
  • Encourages sustainable landscape

practices

  • Provides a variety of native plants that

wildlife love

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Sharing Your Story

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If you build it (a habitat garden), they (wildlife) will come…

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What’s Next?

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  • Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management
  • 1 year Community Challenge Grant with required city match
  • Landscape renovation and interpretive signage
  • Partnering with Trees Matter and Maricopa County Master

Gardeners on edible programming and landscape design

Glendale Desert Food Forest

Demonstration

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What is a Food Forest?

Image from Washington’s Beacon Food Forest website

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Thank You!

Questions?

A special thanks to our community partners whose expertise made this program possible.