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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BASF Agricultural Solutions North America announced it will donate $50,000 to The Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund’s Seed A Legacy pollinator habitat program. The donation is part of BASF’s annual Living Acres
#MonarchChallenge initiative.
Sean Peacock said he was first contacted by the mother of 10-year-old Makenna Lee Elrod and asked if he could "customize a bench for the loss of a child."
The Monarch Butterfly Crusader If you find and raise a caterpillar from the wild, sooner or later, this will happen to you. Good teaching opp for the kids, about the circle of life.
The Monarch Butterfly Crusader Making a difference in his neck of the woods, in Nova Scotia. Getting the community involved, raising, planting, and loving it. And getting the monarch story into the media.
Just over a week ago, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature declared the monarch butterfly endangered. Monarchs have been in trouble for a while with the decline of milkweed across North America. One man in Wolfville, N.S., is doing all he can to save the monarchs — at least in hi...
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.