The City of St. Louis Park is not promoting No Mow May in the city. Instead, the city has undertaken the following pollinator initiatives:

• Declared St. Louis Park a "bee-friendly" city. This resolution defines appropriate parks where pesticides are not sprayed, and where dandelions and white clover are promoted.
• Provide a Native Vegetation Permit (Ord. Sec. 34-118), which allows homeowners to convert their lawns to native pollinator-promoting plants and exempting them from the tall grass ordinance.
• Converted public lands to native prairie plants in areas where mowing was difficult and not usable for recreation, and around lakes and ponds. The city is currently working on plans to convert park and utility areas not used for organized recreation to pollinator patches.
• Continued conversion of exotic annual flowerbeds in parks to strategic native flower perennial beds.
• Mayor Spano has taken the Mayor’s Monarch Pledge for annual pollinator initiatives.
• Hosted a native plant sale, offering discounted flats of native plants to residents to establish pollinator gardens.

Learn more about the city’s bee and pollinator initiatives.