Dear All:
NorthEastern Section of American Chemical Society (NESACS) welcomes you to pledge for No-Mow-May campaign in light of Science Outreach event Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW). The CCEW 2022 theme is “The Buzz About Bugs: Insect Chemistry”.
Our early pollinators are starving, especially when lawns are well-groomed and manicured in the month of May. So how about stacking up their menu cards with diverse options through our commitment.
Inspired by the article "
https://www.thebedfordcitizen.org/2021/05/garden-week-day-two-no-mow-may/", how about pledging for “No-Mow-May” campaign? If No-Mow-May is not an option for you, how about “Less-Mow-May” or “Grow-More-May”. As very well described in the article, we can lengthen our pollinators menu card by not mowing our lawns in May (No-Mow-May) or not mowing a part of our lawn in May (Less-Mow-May) or planting more wildflowers in our lawn for our pollinator guests in May (Grow-More-May).
Adapt whatever works best for you and your lawn. If you are interested in participating, please sign up for the pledge and help our early pollinators do what they love to do, pollinate.
Also ‘take n save’ pictures of your lawns before and after “No-Mow-May”. I will be sending a request to share them in June.
Thanks,
Jay