Join us for this all-ages workshop and help support the future of threatened monarch butterflies! We will be joined by Nancy Crews, Director of the nonprofit Milkweed Matters. Nancy will provide an overview of why pollinators are threatened and what we can do to help. Guests can get their hands dirty and help create milkweed seedballs, which will sprout into the essential host plant used by the butterfly.
About the Instructor: Nancy Crews
Nancy Crews is an avid gardener, conservationist, and is passionate about helping our threatened pollinators, especially the monarch butterfly. The mission of Milkweed Matters is to help educate the public about pollinator conservation and restore native pollinator habitat along the roadsides and in community gardens. Milkweed Matters helps restore habitat along roadsides by conducting outreach with schools, scouts, garden clubs, and other groups to make thousands of milkweed and native nectar flower seedballs. The seedballs are taken to RAGBRAI each year and passed out to riders to toss along the Iowa roadsides. This year Milkweed Matters is celebrating 10 years of pollinator conservation work!
Who: Everyone
Where: 345 Riverfront Drive
When: May 23 // 11AM
Cost: Event is FREE with the cost of daily admission (or Membership).
