Community Profile

Pledge Summary

Hendersonville is a small city in western North Carolina with a population of roughly 16,000. Nestled by the Blue Ridge Mountains, it is home to the beautiful Oklawaha Greenway, a 3.5-mile trail winding through wetlands, meadows, and forests connecting four public parks. The heart of Hendersonville’s downtown area sports a two-story pollinator mural complete with illustrations of the Monarch Butterfly’s life cycle above a demonstration pollinator garden. A few blocks away, artists transformed a city sidewalk into a honey-combed yellow brick road which pedestrians can meander through an illustrative border garden of native plants and pollinators. The City of Hendersonville is committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with the annual signing of the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge and will continue to engage residents in building more pollinator habitat throughout the city.