Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Program Year

2024

Achievement

Signatories

2024

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City of Sanford

Sanford, FL

Art Woodruff

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Sanford is a city in central Florida with a population of 61,051. The city sits on Lake Monroe a tributary of the St. Johns River. Sanford has many has over 300 acres of beautiful parks. It has a Community Garden and Monarch Butterfly gardens. Sanford is a Monarch City USA, 9th in the State of Florida. We are committed to saving pollinators and the Monarch Butterfly population. We encourage residents to build and create pollinator habitat throughout the City of Sanford.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2024

Communications and Convening

  • Launch or maintain a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods. (If you have community members who speak a language other than English, we encourage you to also communicate in that language; Champion Pledges must communicate in that language.)
  • Engage with city parks and recreation, public works, sustainability, and other relevant staff to identify opportunities to revise and maintain mowing programs and milkweed / native nectar plant planting programs.
  • Engage with gardening leaders and partners (e.g., Master Naturalists, Master Gardeners, Nature Centers, Native Plant Society Chapters , other long-standing and influential community leaders) to support monarch butterfly conservation.
  • Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.

Program and Demonstration Gardens

  • Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.