Pollinator-Friendly Community

In January 2016, the Mendota Heights City Council passed a resolution to make the city a pollinator-friendly community. Residents, property owners, businesses, and organizations are encouraged to support pollinators by using practices that:

  • Avoid the use of insecticides, including systemic insecticides, on their property
  • Avoid planting flowering plants that are treated with systemic insecticides
  • Planting more pollinator-supporting forage and adopting organic or chemical-free lawn and landscaping practices. 

View Resolution 2016-01 Declaring the City of Mendota Heights to be a Pollinator-Friendly Community (PDF).

Pollinator-Friendly Guides

Use these guides to help plan and design pollinator-friendly landscapes for homes and businesses:

Pollinator-Friendly Opportunities

Do you want to learn how to add native plants into your garden that support water quality and pollinator habitat? Landscaping for Clean Water Registration is open.

Learn more and register for the program.

Landscape Grants Available

Help protect pollinators in your yard by planting a pollinator-friendly landscape feature.  Grants are available.   You Can Bee the Change in Your Yard

You can help protect the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, monarch butterflies, and other at-risk pollinators by creating habitats like native gardens, trees, and shrubs.

The Lawns 2 Legumes program now offers cost-share grants to private landowners to help pay for these pollinator projects.