Through Thu 10/31
If you are a lover of nature and an advocate for caring for the Earth, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the decline in the monarch butterfly population, and how one of the culprits is the disappearance from roadsides and wild areas of the Common Milkweed, which the monarch feeds on and uses to lay its eggs and raise its caterpillars — the only host plant on which it can do so.
The Ohio Pollinator Habitat Initiative (OPHI), with the cooperation of Ohio Soil and Water Conservation Districts, aims to reverse that loss with the replanting of the Common Milkweed throughout the state. So the Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District will be collecting seedpods from the conservation-minded public from now through October 31. They can be brought to the SWCD office at 3311 Perkins, #100, in Asiatown @ 8:30am-4:30pm, or left in collection bin on the west side of the building by the garage door.
Collect the pods when they are dry, and gray or brown, and the center seam pops open easily. Don’t take them when the pods are still green. Collect them in paper bags, not plastic bags, which retain moisture. Mark on the outside what county they were collected in and the date they were collected.
If you have questions, contact Amy at 216.524-6580, x1005 or aroskilly@cuyahogaswcd.org
cuyahogaswcd.org/programs/common-milkweed-pod-collection
Cleveland, OH 44114