Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Program Year

2022

Achievement

Leadership Circle

2022

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Village of Mamaroneck

Mamaroneck , NY

Thomas Murphy

Mayor

Pledge Summary

We pledge to improve the habitat of the Monarch Butterfly in the Village of Mamaroneck. We will continue to educate residents on the importance of not using pesticides and planting milkweed and native nectar producing plants.

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Community Spotlight

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Mamaroneck Monarch Butterfly Festival

For the 2nd year in a row, we hosted a free festival for 800 residents with countless crafts and activities. Children received a passport with stickers as they completed an obstacle course symbolizing the Monarch's migration to Mexico.

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Rockland Pocket Preserve named official Park

After 18 months, hundreds of volunteers and thousands of native plants - including milkweed - The Village of Mamaroneck held a ribbon cutting for the 10,000 sq ft property that will be a nature preserve for all to enjoy!

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Pollinator Garden at Sarah Neuman Nursing Home

The Village of Mamaroneck Committee for the Environment planned and planted a native pollinator garden at Sarah Neuman Nursing home. The hope was to bring more butterflies to their almost 200 elderly and sick residents who do not leave the grounds.

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Action Items Committed for 2022

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 community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
  • 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-driven educational conservation strategy, initiative, or practice that focuses on and benefits local, underserved residents.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Convert vacant lots to monarch habitat.
  • Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.
  • Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
  • Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
  • Host or support a monarch butterfly festival that is accessible to all residents in the community and promotes monarch and pollinator conservation, as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
  • Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.