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If you are an Arivaca resident (in the townsite or surrounding hills) and you are already growing pollinator-friendly plants in your home garden, or want to start, we welcome you to join the Arivaca Pollinator Pathway Project's FREE Home Gardener Program!
All participants will receive a free, colorful Pollinator Pathway Project sign for your property (see photo below), a free pollinator-friendly plant, free AZ Milkweed seeds, and a lapel button so you can show your support for pollinators to others anytime!
There are 3 easy ways to add your garden to the Arivaca Pollinator Pathway:
Visit the Caviglia- Arivaca Library during open hours to complete a registration form, and turn it in at the front desk (takes only 5 minutes to do);
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Send us an email at arivacapollinatorpathway@gmail.com and request a registration form. Print, fill it out, then drop it off at the library next time you visit.
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Visit the Pollinator Pathway Project display during one of Arivaca's community-wide events, complete a registration form, and turn it in there!
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The Home Gardener Program began in June 2024 with the goal of having "mini-pathways" throughout Arivaca and the surrounding hills, with groups of neighbors intentionally growing plants that attract and nurture pollinators. This gives bees, butterflies, bats, and hummingbirds the ability to browse many different nectar sources, greatly magnifying the benefits to them.
Over the past 2 years, more and more Arivaca gardeners have joined the project, and as of June 2026 there are 50 properties registered, an impressive total for this relatively small community! There are now clusters of multiple Home Gardener Program properties within the townsite, just outside town on either side of Ruby Road and Arivaca Road, trailing down Ilteka, Mesquite, Crooked Sky, Cedar Creek, and Hardscrabble Roads, and even a few further out in the hills. Way to go, Arivaca gardeners!
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A few examples of pollinator-friendly plants you may already have growing in your garden:
Any species of Milkweed (Asclepsias)
Any species of Sage (Salvia) shrub, IE: blue, white, red
Any species of Penstemon
Honeysuckle, Trumpet, or Cross Vine
Herbs such as Rosemary, Oregano, Sage, Thyme, Cilantro, Mint, etc.
Sunflowers, Zinnia, Cosmos, Marigolds, etc.
Succulents and cacti such as Agave, Prickly Pear, Yucca, Barrel Cactus, Aloe, etc.
Peritoma arborea/Bladderpod
Lupinus arizonicus/Arizona lupine
Glandularia gooddingii/Gooding's Verbena
Eschscholzia californica/California Poppy
Melampodium leucanthum/Blackfoot Daisy
Erigeron divergens/Spreading Fleabane
Conoclinium greggii/Gregg's Mistflower
Baccharis sarothroides/Desert Broom
Chilopsis linereus/Desert Willow
Agastache
Baileya multiradiata/Desert Marigold)
Zauschneria/Hummingbird's Trumpet
Tagetes lemmonii/Mt. Lemmon Marigold
Ratibida columnifera/Mexican Hat
Sphaeralcea angustifolia/Globe Mallow
Check the Pollinator Plantlist page for additional ideas on what to add to your garden!
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