If you have harvested milkweed seeds from existing plants, the typical perennial varieties that need cold stratification ...

The population of essential milkweed plants has decreased over the past decades. Help restore their numbers by collecting ...

Changing and falling leaves are a sure sign of fall, and so are milkweed seed pods starting to dry out in preparation of being harvested. Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies, ...

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

Milkweed is a fantastic plant for pollinators, and one particularly adored by Monarch butterflies. But the Monarchs' population is declining, and gardeners need to stand up and do whatever they can to ...

The pods should be placed in a paper bag and stored a dry place before being dropped off. The bags should also be marked with the county where they were collected. Lininger said that’s to better ...

Mayors or community leaders who take the pledge must commit to carrying out at least three of the 30 available actions listed ...

CLECELAND, Ohio -- Matt, a reader from Broadview Heights, sent me an email and a photo last month and wrote, “I was out walking my dog and I saw these plants. Are they milkweed pods, and if so, can I ...

Monarch butterflies, for example, only lay their eggs on milkweed, and milkweed is all monarch caterpillars can eat. Without ...

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. — TDOT is now launching a campaign to give away free milkweed seeds aimed at building habitats for endangered monarch butterflies. It's part of a larger trend toward yards with ...

Walking on Wednesdays on Aug. 10 in downtown Amherst had a very different kind of booth for this month’s festivities. Two volunteers of the Cleveland Chapter of Wild Ones, a nonprofit dedicated to ...