Delaying your lawn mowing can help out important pollinators
LETHBRIDGE, AB – If you haven’t mowed your lawn yet this month, the Nature Conservancy of Canada wants you to wait a little longer.
Spokesperson Andrew Holland said the organization is promoting the No Mow May campaign.
“It’s an effort to draw attention to peoples’ lawns and [to encourage] them to leave them shaggy, sort of like our hair the last couple of months…we’ve all been inside during the COVID-19 restrictions, and our hair’s gotten a bit long, and we’re encouraging people to take the same approach with their lawns because that can really be beneficial for insects and pollinators,” Holland told Lethbridge News Now.
He said the initiative started in the U.K. and has since grown across Canada.