Finally, an excuse to not mow your lawn – ‘No Mow May!’
"There's a kind of societal or cultural pressure to have an immaculate, unblemished, consistent and even green lawn. But that doesn't happen naturally.", started ‘No Mow May’ in 2019 and Appleton, Wisconsin was the first town in the U.S. to adopt the effort in 2020. on Appleton lawns, conducted by Lawrence University wowed researchers when they compared bee numbers of non-mowed lawns to local mowed parks.
"There's millions and millions of Americans who have yards," she said of her research which she tries to make actionable by the public. "I like to test using very rigorous science how different types of management behaviors, whether it's mowing grass or planting native plants, or doing specific things for wildlife… to get the science and see how does wildlife respond?"
"Even though the yards that were mowed every three weeks had more flowers, it was the yards that we mowed every two weeks that had more bees," said Lermer. "From a social standpoint, it just made selling the research to the public a lot easier in terms of when we go to the yards that were mowed every week, they look like they didn't really need to be mowed. We went to the yards every two weeks and I guess it can use a trim.
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