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GARDENING FOR POLLINATORS & WILDLIFE ON A BUDGET
January 21, 2025, 2:00-3:30 PM, Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Road Carianne Funicelli
It’s not just the grocery store – prices are rising everywhere, even at the local nurseries and garden centers. Even so, there are so many budget-friendly ways to improve your backyard habitat for pollinators and wildlife. Irrigation, plant procurement, and landscape maintenance are all areas where we can make strategic budget choices with the most “bang for the buck.”
Carianne Funicelli is a well-known advocate for native plant conservation and restoration and has conducted projects large and small throughout the southwest region, both in wild areas and urban landscapes. She has worked in the government, business, and non-profit sectors over the past 25 years, and now with her own consulting firm, Strategic Habitat Enhancements (SHE), she helps clients bring nature to their yards with strategic native plant choices.
I have worked on pollinator gardens at National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges, and larger habitat restoration projects in urban and wild places. I’ve been working with local non-profits like the Central Arizona Conservation Alliance, Tucson Bird Alliance, Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection, Gila Watershed Partnership, Taproot Collaborative, and the Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists, as well as garden clubs including the Oracle Community Learning Garden and the Arizona Columbine Garden Club. I teach an Advanced SmartScape course, “Sustainable Landscaping” through the UA/Pima County Cooperative Extension, and have been working with Master Gardeners in three Arizona counties.