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Attachment 2 <br />1fi <br />SUSTAINABILITY <br />Contact Us: <br />Noelle Bakken <br />2660 Civic Center Dr. <br />Roseville, MN 55113 <br />651-792-7057 <br />Email Us <br />Find us Online! <br />Inside this <br />issue: <br />Sustainability Tip <br />Green to Go <br />Textile Recycling <br />Ramsey County Cli- <br />mate Framework <br />Upcoming Events <br />Good Climate News <br />Sustainability <br />Newsletter <br />MAR/APR 2024 <br />Sustainability Tip Green to Go <br />of the Month— introduction <br />Spring Gardening <br />Public Works & <br />Engineering Division <br />RE <br />TOLD RAMSEY <br />V COUNTY <br />Textile Collection with Ramsey County <br />ReTold Climate Action <br />Framework <br />Sustainability Tip of the Month —Spring Gardening <br />It may feel like spring is extra early thanks to El Nino's <br />continued influence in Minnesota, but if you want to <br />make sure you're helping spring pollinators, don't get <br />your rakes and clippers out just yet. <br />If you left leaf litter around your yard and in your beds <br />over the winter, you likely have many winter hiberna- <br />tors living there! Ground -nesting bees, bumblebees, <br />and many other pollinators use that leaf litter for cover, <br />and cavity -nesting pollinators may still be snoozing in <br />your leftover stalks from the end of last season. Most <br />won't emerge until temperatures warm to 50 or 60 de- <br />grees. <br />Photo of Trout Lily by Andrew <br />Krueger(M PR) <br />Follow these tips for pollinator -friendly spring gardening: <br />• Wait until temperatures are consistently 50 degrees or higher to rake, mow, <br />or do other yard cleanup <br />• Once you start cleaning up old stems from perennials and annuals, inspect <br />them to see whether they are plugged with mud or other vegetation. If they <br />are, it means there could be bee larvae in those stems. Leave them in a quiet <br />part of your yard where they can emerge safely later. <br />• Wait to mulch - adding mulch to your beds can prevent the soil from naturally <br />warming and telling the ground -nesting bees it's time to emerge. Leave some un- <br />mulched areas so there are access points from below the ground. <br />• Participate in Less Mow Mav! Let those dandelions, violets, and clover bloom - <br />they provide crucial nutrition for pollinators when it's too early for other plants to <br />bloom. <br />• Parts of Minnesota (including Roseville) are now in hardiness Zone 5, and there <br />may be some new plants you could add to your yard. <br />• Make sure plants are free of neonicotinoids and other insecticides that are <br />harmful to native pollinators. The Ramsey County Master Gardeners plant <br />sale on May 18 is a good place to find untreated native plants that are safe for <br />pollinators. <br />Page 18 of 140 <br />