Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Monday, April 1, 2024

Program Year

2024

Achievement

Signatories

2024

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Lorain

Lorain, OH

Jack Bradley

Mayor

Pledge Summary

The City of Lorain has planted numerous pollinator gardens throughout the city and used public/private partnerships for the planting and maintaining of the gardens.

Community Spotlight

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Our Pollinator activists

On October 10, 2024, we held the "Save the Pollinators Celebration" at the newly constructed Willow Park Pollinator Meadow. This was the community's first chance to view the garden and witness its beauty! We had an incredible turnout!

Action Items Committed for 2024

Communications and Convening

  • Engage with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
  • 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 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

  • Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
  • Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.

Systems Change

  • Reduce or eliminate the use of herbicides, pesticides, or other chemicals that are harmful to monarchs and pollinators and urban wildlife.