Long Live The Monarch: Pollinator Week In The Town Of Bedford

Press release from the Town of Bedford:

Happy Pollinator Week

June 19-25, 2023, marks national Pollinator Week!

Bedford will celebrate with a free pollinator garden tour hosted by Healthy Yards, Bedford 2030, Westchester Pollinators, Westchester County Parks, and many individual property owners who will open up their gardens to the public on Sunday, June 25.

Join the Tour on Sunday, June 25. The Tour schedule indicates which properties are open 10-1 or 1-4.

Bedford Stands by the Mayor’s Monarch Pledge

The Town of Bedford is proud to participate in the National Wildlife Federation’s Mayors’ Monarch Pledge to support Monarch butterflies and other pollinators, which are experiencing significant declines.

Our town recognizes the importance of creating Monarch and pollinator habitat at parks, gardens, and other green spaces.

With this pledge our town commits to restoring healthy habitat for pollinators and encourages residents to do the same, so that butterflies, like the Monarch, will once again flourish.

• Avoid the applications of insecticides in the yard: they harm all insects
• Plant species native to the United States and the Northeast
• Keep it dark at night
• Minimize leaf blower activity
• Join the Bedford Pollinator Pathway
• Visit some pollinator gardens on the tour on Sunday, June 25, 2023.

This press release was produced by the Town of Bedford. The views expressed here are the author’s own.