Target Audience:
Anyone who cares about the environment
Community Need Addressed:
Some nature centers have expressed that they are seeking more milkweed. We contacted Riveredge Nature Center to see if they’d be interested in letting us plant a monarch waystation on their property. They replied within a minute. They were so excited. They told us that they were actually just talking about increasing the diversity of milkweed on their property.
Sustainability Considerations:
Expenses:
Projected -- The plants cost 139 dollars in total plus 20.85 for shipping, a 5 dollar sign, and an extra 40 dollars to register it as a waystation. So that is 202.85 dollars in total.
Achievements:
Originally, we had hoped to plant a "teaching garden". However RiverEdge Nature Center had recently disturbed soil while putting in wiring for an outdoor classroom. They needed our plants to cover the soil disturbance instead. Identifying and meeting a need such as that is the heart of a Silver Award Project.
Therefore, we addressed the need for the nature center to have more native plants to cover their bare soil. We planted a garden on their exposed dirt and contributed to the well-being of monarch butterflies by planting milkweed and nectar plants.
The workers at the nature center benefited from our project because they no longer had to figure out what to do with said bare soil. It also helped the monarch butterflies have a safe place to call home.
Through our project, we've achieved spreading awareness to the public about the endangered monarch butterfly species and what they can do to help. Our hopes are that they give it consideration and contribute to the monarch's population and health.
Long-Term Impact:
We were able to cover bare soil at the nature center before weeds had a chance to root. We inspired our troop leader to plant a butterfly garden at her house, and also to start surrounding her garden with milkweed plants instead of marigolds like she usually does.
Our audience will be able to see simple changes they can make in the plants they can choose which provide food for caterpillars and butterflies all summer long. They will know where to buy those plants.
Sustainability of Our Project:
Our plants will live on because they are Wisconsin native plants and were planted at a nature center where they will be well taken care of by a native plant expert. Our brochure and bookmarks are uploaded to our website so that they can easily be reproduced.
Inspiring Others:
Promotion: Handed out swaps at Volunteer-Led Day Camp with our Website Address
Bookmarks: Decorated bookmarks for local library, and made reproducible pages so more bookmarks can be printed
Brochure: Downloadable & Reproducible -- any organization can use them
Social Media: Designed and hid "kindness rocks" with the social media tag #RiveredgeRocks4633
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Anyone who cares about the environment
Community Need Addressed:
Some nature centers have expressed that they are seeking more milkweed. We contacted Riveredge Nature Center to see if they’d be interested in letting us plant a monarch waystation on their property. They replied within a minute. They were so excited. They told us that they were actually just talking about increasing the diversity of milkweed on their property.
Sustainability Considerations:
1) It’s a perennial garden, so the plants will keep growing year after year
2) The garden will be taken care of by an active nature center
3) Made a brochure and website to encourage people to plant milkweed in their own yards.
Ideal Outcomes:
1) Get the community to plant milkweed in their yards
2) Increase the monarch population
3) Spread awareness
Expenses:
Projected -- The plants cost 139 dollars in total plus 20.85 for shipping, a 5 dollar sign, and an extra 40 dollars to register it as a waystation. So that is 202.85 dollars in total.
| Actual: | |
| Preplanned Garden -- | $139.00 |
| Shipping -- | $020.85 |
| 4 purple milkweed @$6.00/each -- | $024.00 |
| 1 downy phlox @ 7.99 -- | $007.99 |
| 1 Anise Hyssop @ 5.99 -- | $005.99 |
Achievements:
Originally, we had hoped to plant a "teaching garden". However RiverEdge Nature Center had recently disturbed soil while putting in wiring for an outdoor classroom. They needed our plants to cover the soil disturbance instead. Identifying and meeting a need such as that is the heart of a Silver Award Project.
Therefore, we addressed the need for the nature center to have more native plants to cover their bare soil. We planted a garden on their exposed dirt and contributed to the well-being of monarch butterflies by planting milkweed and nectar plants.
The workers at the nature center benefited from our project because they no longer had to figure out what to do with said bare soil. It also helped the monarch butterflies have a safe place to call home.
Through our project, we've achieved spreading awareness to the public about the endangered monarch butterfly species and what they can do to help. Our hopes are that they give it consideration and contribute to the monarch's population and health.
Long-Term Impact:
We were able to cover bare soil at the nature center before weeds had a chance to root. We inspired our troop leader to plant a butterfly garden at her house, and also to start surrounding her garden with milkweed plants instead of marigolds like she usually does.
Our audience will be able to see simple changes they can make in the plants they can choose which provide food for caterpillars and butterflies all summer long. They will know where to buy those plants.
Sustainability of Our Project:
Our plants will live on because they are Wisconsin native plants and were planted at a nature center where they will be well taken care of by a native plant expert. Our brochure and bookmarks are uploaded to our website so that they can easily be reproduced.
Inspiring Others:
Promotion: Handed out swaps at Volunteer-Led Day Camp with our Website Address
Bookmarks: Decorated bookmarks for local library, and made reproducible pages so more bookmarks can be printed
Brochure: Downloadable & Reproducible -- any organization can use them
Social Media: Designed and hid "kindness rocks" with the social media tag #RiveredgeRocks4633
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