MILKWEED SEED COLLECTION

Mary Culik of Traverse City collects seeds from common milkweed at the Mitchell Creek Meadows Preserve in East Bay Township as part of a Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservency seed collection event. A small portion of seeds were taken from each plant to be used by the conservancy for projects such as habitat restoration, increasing biodiversity or to add habitat for pollinators like the Monarch butterfly. More collection events are planned this year, such as native goldenrod and little bluestem when the seeds are ready in November.

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