If you’re here, you’re probably a nature lover, like me. Or maybe you want to convince someone else to be one. This is a great place to start.
The purpose of this site is to educate, and to promote conservation. The information you need will be listed on my Resource page. When the Junior Crusader pages are complete, you will have a roadmap of activities to help save the monarch, together with levels of achievement and rewards.
Raising monarch butterflies is an excellent Introduction to Nature project for families, classrooms and youth groups. It starts with a hunt for caterpillars, and ends with the release of a miracle less than a month later. All sorts of discoveries abound along the way, while happy memories of friends and family expeditions are created.
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Be a Bee Bud with our buy 1, plant 2 project Did you know that pollinators account for roughly 1 in every 3 bites of food we eat? That pollinating insects are responsible for reproducing over 90% of Earth’s flowering plants worldwide, including most fruits and vegetables? Some pollinators, like Mo...
"For every third bite we need to thank the pollinators," said one volunteer working with the Springfield Park District over the weekend. Volunteers with the Springfield Parks Foundation and the Springfield Park District distributed greenhouse-grown milkweed in several parks around the city on Saturd...
Check out the latest community post from one of your neighbors. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.)
A recently published study suggests that one of the world's most common pesticides may be contributing to the ...
The County of Union invites all Union County gardeners to a “Native Plant Swap and Shop” event where they can trade an invasive plant from their yard for a colorful native plant. This free event...
If you’re here, you’re probably a nature lover, like me. Or maybe you want to convince someone else to be one. This is a great place to start.