PETOSKEY, MI – Lauri Juday carries around little packets of common milkweed seeds and gives them to anyone who promises to plant them. That’s because monarch butterflies need native milkweed ...

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Beginning with a sense of awe about the seed itself and the potential it embodies, saving seeds is free. It is a great ... saving seeds from a milkweed plant specifically helps support the ...

I have been harvesting milkweed seeds for next year’s growth ... the seed itself and the potential it embodies, saving seeds is free. It is a great way to share the bounty of your garden ...

KINGSTON — Fall is the ideal time to sow seeds of native plants, such as milkweed and asters, which are critical to the survival of bumblebees, butterflies, birds and other ...

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And the best way to start native plants is with seeds collected within a 50-mile ... that utilize this strategy are the many species of milkweed (Asclepias). Another is coyote brush, also known ...

Wear gloves when handling as the sap can be a skin irritant. Cost: Due to their benefits to butterflies, milkweed seeds are available for free from the Live Monarch Education Foundation and other ...

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So he is fascinated that this year, the milkweed meadow at the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve will get another round of flowers and maybe another set of seeds. And the butterflies got an extra ...