Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Program Year

2022

Achievement

Signatories

2022

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City of Hendersonville

Hendersonville, NC

Barbara Volk

Mayor of Hendersonville

Pledge Summary

Hendersonville is a city in western North Carolina with a population of roughly 16,000. The city is nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains and is home to the beautiful Oklawaha Greenway, a 3.5-mile trail winding through wetlands, meadows, and forests connecting four public parks. The heart of Hendersonville’s downtown area sports a two-story pollinator mural complete with illustrations of the Monarch Butterfly’s life cycle above a demonstration pollinator garden. A few blocks away, artists transformed a city sidewalk into a honey-combed yellow brick road through which pedestrians can meander through an illustrative border garden of native plants and pollinators. The City of Hendersonville has committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with the signing of the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge and will continue to engage residents in building more pollinator habitat throughout the city.

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Pollinator Bed on Four Season Boulevard

Landscaped on about ¼-acre of enriched soil, the pollinator garden includes six medium-height pollinator-friendly trees, 43 flowering shrubs, a number of tall grasses, and hundreds of plugs of perennial flowers.

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Action Items Committed for 2022

Communications and Convening

  • 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

  • Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.

Systems Change

  • Integrate monarch butterfly conservation into the city’s Park Master Plan, Sustainability Plan, Climate Resiliency Plan or other city plans.