Critter Cindy tagging a Monarch Butterfly

A Monarch’s Journey

October 30, 2024

Cindy Blobaum, our Environmental Education Program Manager introduces and inspires our community to experience the beauty of tagging migrating monarch butterflies in her approach to connect people to nature for the benefit of both.

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Purple Coneflowers with a Silvery Chersopt Butterfly on the seed head.

Coneflower Power and Other Native Plant Perks

August 15, 2024

Mace Tompson | Visitor Services – Gardens and Grounds AmeriCorps Member, September 2023 – August 2024 Growing native plants in your garden can be as simple as sprinkling seeds onto a patch of dirt in fall and seeing what pops up in spring, or it can be more involved like starting seeds indoors at the end…

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