Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Program Year

2021

Achievement

Leadership Circle

2021

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Brady

Brady, TX

Anthony Groves

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Brady is a small city in Central Texas with a population of over 5,000, ideally located in the center of Texas portion of the Monarch Flyway where in the last days of September, monarchs from Canada and the Northeast are funneled south into Mexico. Brady is also home to a butterfly and hummingbird garden that contains native plants, shrubs, and milkweeds and is adjacent to a 3/4 mile walking trail along the beautiful Brady Creek. brady Mayor, Anthony Groves, has committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with his signing of the Mayor's Monarch Pledge and looks forward to engaging residents in building more pollinator habitats throughout the city.

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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.
  • Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
  • Issue a proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat. This proclamation must incorporate a focus on monarch conservation.

Program and Demonstration Gardens

  • Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
  • Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
  • Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.