Happy Mother's Day 2025 to Mother Earth, Happy Go Public Gardens Days 2025 on May 9-18, and Happy International Day of Plant Health 2025 on May 12! Today, Sunday May 11, we at Arcadia Ecohome are celebrating the above three global events together with a single local event of attending the mini public garden in front of the Ecohome. Many years ago instead of maintaining the turf as my neighbors have done, we converted the non-descriptive and monocultured lawn on the city's parkway within the public street right-of-way right by the Ecohome into a greenery "sidewalk garden“ as an extension of our front yard, a part of Certified Widlife Habitat, Certified Pollinator Habitat, and Certified Monarch Waystation. It is a California and wildlife-pollinator friendly garden landscaped with bio-diversified and drought tolerant plants. Under three Magnolia street trees planted by the City of Arcadia, we have rewild the parkway with aeonium succulent, white-flowered butterfly iris and sweet alyssum. The site is in very close proximity to the Camino Grove School and Camino Grove Park and is frequent on daily basis by school kids, their parents, teachers, park-goers and other pass-byers. Therefore, our efforts for purposes of public education and enjoyment to create and maintain the sidewalk garden debuted as one-patch-a-time project aiming not only to create an eco-patch and showcases a built ARK, a citizen science project by We Are The ARK, but also lead-by-example of rewilding parkways and transforming sidewalks-to-trails in our community. Today’s gardening work at this demonstrative urban trail section helps us connect to mother nature, maintains a beautiful and rewild streetscape along a safe and walkable/cyclable route to the school and park by pruning overgrown plants over the public sidewalk and parking lane, removes weeds & invasive species, waters after being baked for two days over 90-degree Fahrenheit, and makes all plant species health for offering healthy ecoservices to pollinators and other wildlife. In addition, the event and following pictures are to be shared in citizen science platforms such as iNaturalist and SciStarter.