What is No Mow March?

It’s a movement encouraging homeowners to put their lawnmowers away for the month of March. The idea is to let your lawn grow naturally, which provides a temporary refuge for pollinators like bees and butterflies.  It’s a simple concept with big environmental benefits that we will discuss in this episode of Your Central Florida Yard. 

A new episode out now from Your Central Florida Yard

Your Central Florida Yard, a podcast from UF/IFAS Extension Polk County has a new episode on No Mow March. Listen to it on Apple, Spotify, or where you listen to podcasts.

Listen here

Your garden checklist

For this garden checklist…
Participate in Now Mow March! Take some of the concepts and ideas we discussed in the episode and give them a try! 
 
Send us a message or tag us on social media—we would love to have some listener tips to share out with the community!

Learn more

• • Find your local UF/IFAS Extension office
  • If you are not in Polk County, Contact your local UF/IFAS Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Plant Clinic
  • Your Central Florida Yard newsletter
  • No Mow March 
  • Make a pollinator hotel fact sheet
  • Attracting Native Bees to Your Florida Landscape: https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN1255
  • Plants for Pollinators
  • Support Florida’s Pollinators All Year Long

The Florida Master Gardener Volunteer Program is a volunteer-driven program that benefits UF/IFAS Extension and the citizens of Florida. The program extends the vision of the University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, all the while protecting and sustaining natural resources and environmental systems, enhancing the development of human resources, and improving the quality of human life through the development of knowledge in agricultural, human and natural resources and making that knowledge accessible.

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