Lawns to Legumes 2022: What's been accomplished and what's next
Online/Virtual
Public Welcome Will be Recorded Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation
Lawns to Legumes has received continued funding through 2022. This State-funded initiative to improve pollinator habitat offers workshops, coaching, planting guides and cost-share funding for installing pollinator-friendly native plantings in residential lawns. The program also campaigns to raise awareness for pollinator habitat projects and establishes demonstration neighborhoods to showcase best practices. The aim of the program is to protect the federally endangered rusty patched bumblebee (Minnesota’s state bee) and other at-risk pollinators.
Dan Shaw, Lawns to Legumes State Project Manager and Senior Ecologist/Vegetation Specialist at the MN Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR)
Brett Stolpestad, Landscape Restoration Senior Technician with the Washington Conservation District (WCD). Brett is a Wild Ones member, a recent graduate of the U of MN’s Master of Landscape Architecture program, and he is taking the lead preparing a 2022 Lawns to Legumes Neighborhood Demonstration grant application for the Conservation District.
INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT for Lawns to Legumes at Blue Thumb: https://bluethumb.org/lawns-to-legumes/