Growing Milkweed for the Monarch Butterfly - A Year Later
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Here is the Milkweed Project a year later, a collaboration between Painted Lady Vineyard, Terroir Seeds and The Xerces Society to grow the milkweed variety Asclepias asperula, or antelope milkweed that is native to Arizona and everal western states, but is extremely difficult to find commercially. 2,190 little milkweed plugs were planted almost a year ago, and this is the first harvest of seeds that are native to the central Arizona uplands. Terroir Seeds will have seeds available for sale this fall.
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Sorry for this on your videos, yet I want to HELP have the Monarch butterfly survive and people need to read the following (IMHO of over 40 years as an Organic Farmer trying to save this butterfly) and not be destroyed by a CATCH 22!... sow this...here is a Catch 22... milkweed is very toxic to livestock(Especially sheep) when they consume in quantity which very easily happens when the weed plant invades a farmers' pasture and takes over if nothing is done to stop it... so what one may be doing also and what happens when one spreads milkweed seeds say to save the monarch butterfly and the reason why they call it a WEED is because it grows everywhere and takes over a pasture or a field... and so just maybe what one really is doing is killing a horse or a sheep that a farmer down the road has in his or her pasture and then what do they(the farmer) do? Yes MANSONTO LOVES THIS PART > after a horse, lamb or whatever dies of convulsions or even gets sick from consuming just a little, or even before this happens yet at the first sight of this invasive plant showing up in the farmer's field or pasture, they go and buy a few hundred, maybe thousands of gallons of ROUNDUP to save their livelihood of raising food or their livestock from a painful death and launch a war to get rid of this TOXIC VERY INVASIVE WEED.... hope that makes sense because I see so many people jumping on some kind of bandwagon spreading the virtues of saving a butterfly that well may be nice to think about that you have the need or power to do... yet... read up about how toxic it really is to livestock and then >>>THINK<<< and watch to see if you are spreading it into the wrong place causing more poisons to be SPREAD! >>> I often wonder if it is not the companies selling herbicides that are seizing an opportunity and that are also helping to spread the story that we need to plant the toxic weed Milkweed to save the Monarch because they know it will increase SALES of their POISONS that is recommended ALSO to eliminate the same toxic weed MILKWEED! <<<(read up with a little research as a farmer would do)...especially in the millions of acreage of hayfields that now could have it growing for no other reason then because of watching a video like this and the person now knows they must to go and save this butterfly by planting MILKWEED, which yes the butterfly needs in it's natural migratory specific area of land, does not realize the hidden cost of their actions... no farmer wants a plant, let alone thousands of milkweed plants to be baled up and then feed it to their livestock in the winter when the animal has GOT to eat the dried milkweed plant(all parts of the plant is poison to the livestock) that is in the hay now being put in the hay manger and is most likely guaranteed to die because that is it to eat!!! Could you imagine a barn full of cows, sheep, goats or horses all of a sudden coming down with respiratory problems, diarrhea or even convulsions or death because the farmer missed an invasion of milkweed out of nowhere. T H I N K the bigger picture what one is doing by promoting more people to plant more and more and more of a toxic WEED to livestock and especially in areas that has no impact of the migratory patterns of a Butterfly that is really happening a thousand miles away... my guess it encourages more farmers to use chemicals like this next article recommends and that is Glyphosate, most known as Roundup~~~>So sow if you must, just THINK what will happen when so many people do sow... what Pandora's Box if enough people keep spreading...I guarantee more ROUNDUP used by Farmers in fields that would of not otherwise and ultimately more food cost for US and those butterflies that most likely are NOT surviving >>>TRUTH<<< be KNOWN not because of the lack of a very invasive toxic weed that is already literally just about invaded EVERYWHERE yet the Monarch's numbers are TRULY in decline because of spraying those chemicals in the FIRST PLACE in the million of acres it is already used for roundup GMO resistant plants, like corn and soybean! ... CATCH 22! THINK Please! http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/info_milkweed.htm
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Great video. People need more educational videos on milkweed propagation. Some types are in critical need for the monarch migration. We would appreciate if you could share some with us too. We distribute millions of milkweed seeds every year and try our best to send native varieties to all who ask.
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Do you have Verbena bonarienses seeds? I want to buy some.
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can I still plant more seeds? do you sell milkweed seeds? can you send this seed to my house in Texas?
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I live in San Antonio Texas, I got a Milkweed seed kit online. I am trying to grow it, but after germination when I planted in the ground they died..........can you tell me what type of soil and irrigation the milkweed needs? Thanks!
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Western Monarch's become stronger and more resilient if developed on A. Speciosa but defiantly NOT A. Tuberosa. The milkweed needs to be a local variety that grows all the way to Canada and not just CA.
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You are welcome! I hope that this helps increase your understanding and inspiration for growing some milkweed for the Monarchs.
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Thank you for the great informative video.
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