Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Monday, March 22, 2021

Program Year

2021

Achievement

Leadership Circle

2021

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City of Raleigh

Raleigh, NC

Mary-Ann Baldwin

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Raleigh, population 480,000, is one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. The capital, and second-largest city in North Carolina, Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees, which line the streets in the heart of the city. The City's vision is, "To pursue world-class quality of life by actively collaborating with our community towards a fulfilling and inspired future for all."

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2021

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.
  • Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.

Program and Demonstration Gardens

  • Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
  • Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.

Systems Change

  • Change weed or mowing ordinances to allow for native prairie and plant habitats.
  • Launch, expand, or continue an effort to change municipal planting ordinances and practices to include more native milkweed and native nectar producing plants at city properties.