CARRBORO, NC -- The Town of Carrboro is participating in No Mow May! For the month of May, Town landscape crews will allow the flowering plants in certain areas to bloom, providing bees and other pollinators with food and habitat they need to survive. Look out for the Bee City USA No Mow May signs in Wilson Park, Hank Anderson Park, Martin Luther King, Jr. Park and near Town Hall.
You can participate in No Mow May, too. Carrboro’s Town Code allows managed natural landscapes, so give your mowers, blowers and edgers a break. You can use the time you save to:
- Consider buying clean and quiet all-electric landscape equipment. Our Town landscape crew says it works just as well but without the noise and air and carbon pollution.
- Design a new flower bed to reduce the size of your lawn. You’ll permanently save time mowing and will enjoy the birds, bees and butterflies it attracts!
- Dream up a piedmont prairie that transforms your entire lawn into a pollinator paradise,
The goal of No Mow May is to allow grass to grow unmown for the month of May, creating habitat and forage for early season pollinators.
- Reducing how often you mow allows flowering plants to bloom, providing bees and other pollinators with food and habitat they need to survive.
- Researchers in Wisconsin studying the impact of No Mow May found that participating yards had three-times higher bee species richness and five-times higher bee abundance than nearby parks that had been mowed.
- Many pollinator species emerge in May from their hibernation or wintering habitat and flowers in your yard can provide them with a critical first meal.
- Regular lawn mowing favors grasses and other low-growing species. Mowing your lawn less can allow different species to thrive, increasing biodiversity.
- Researchers in Canada have found that certain allergenic species, such as ragweed, can be decreased simply through reducing lawn mowing frequency.
- As part of its commitment to Bee City USA, the Carrboro Town Code was updated to allow managed natural landscapes. No Mow May is one way you can participate!
Learn more at https://beecityusa.org/no-mow-may/
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