I like this project a lot. The site was formerly a degraded lawn with a shitty apple tree. It’s in a park next to two child-centric locations and a parking lot, so there is a lot of opportunity for it to be an enriching public education spot. My crew spent last year turning it into a dry creekbed garden full of native plants.
It takes about three years for a pollinator garden to really begin flourishing here, but even after the first season it’s so much nicer and supports a lot more wildlife. The creekbed even serves a dual role of diverting water away from the parking lot while storing it for the plants to minimise irrigation.
In the opposite direction of where we want it unfortunately. Those three years require biweekly maintenance. Invasive species proliferate in degraded land until the natives crowd them out. Hopefully by the time these currant bushes mature it will be self-sustaining.