Blue Thumb and the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources have partnered to create the Lawns to Legumes program. This is an effort to encourage residents to turn part or all of their lawns into clean water-friendly pollinator habitat.
Blue Thumb has a website for the project. Minnesotans can attend related workshops and receive cost-share funding for converting lawns into pollinator habitat. Minnesota’s state bee is the Rusty Patched Bumblebee, which is endangered. While this bee is the focus of the Lawns to Legumes program, other important pollinators will benefit. In turn, we all will benefit.
