Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Friday, March 17, 2023

Program Year

2023

Achievement

Signatories

2023

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Town of Kernersville

Kernersville, NC

Dawn Morgan

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Kernersville is in Forsyth and Guilford Counties of North Carolina. This area is known as the Piedmont Triad region. Our community is committed to educational efforts and habitat preservation.

Community Spotlight

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Flower Giveaway

We gave away 12 pallets of flowers.

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Livestake Giveaway

Distributed 6000 livestakes (stream plantings) that are great for pollinators.

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2023 Shoreline Garden Kit

Distributed 300 plant kits with 2700 plants (300 A. incarnata) during annual Forsyth Creek Week.

Action Items Committed for 2023

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.)

Program and Demonstration Gardens

  • Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
  • Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
  • Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.

Systems Change

  • Launch, expand, or continue an effort to change municipal planting ordinances and practices to include more native milkweed and native nectar producing plants at city properties.