Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Program Year
2024
Achievement
2024
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Community Spotlight
Five Corners Garden
A vacant lot was converted into a monarch habitat by a group of volunteers in 2021; it is located in the heart of the Village at "Five Corners", where Chauncey Lane and Broadway intersect, adjacent to the Old Croton Aqueduct trail.
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Troop 1708 Garden
In 2021, Girl Scout Troop 1708 adopted a triangle of vacant village land where Merrill, Hamilton and Rosedale meet. The troop cleared the land and used American Meadows Monarch Butterfly Seed Mix to start their garden. It is now flourishing!
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Sawmill River Butterfly Garden
Volunteers planted nine pollinator gardens along the Saw Mill River in Hastings-on-Hudson.
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Tiny Gardens
Families adopted tiny plots of vacant village land to create pollinator gardens.
Learn MoreAction Items Committed for 2024
- 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.
- 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 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 Homeowners Associations (HOAs), Community Associations or neighborhood organizations to identify opportunities to plant monarch gardens and revise maintenance and mowing programs.
- Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
- 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.
- Launch or maintain an outdoor education program(s) (e.g., at schools, after-school programs, community centers and groups) that builds awareness and creates habitat by engaging students, educators, and the community in planting native milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Schoolyard Habitats program and Monarch Mission curriculum).
- 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.
- Integrate monarch butterfly conservation into the city’s Park Master Plan, Sustainability Plan, Climate Resiliency Plan or other city plans.
Past Pledge Archive
| Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor Nicola Armacost | 2024 | 2/10/2024 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Nicola Armacost | 2023 | 1/26/2023 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Nicola Armacost | 2022 | 4/6/2022 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
