Monarchs are cool. I read where we should all plant a patch of milkweed cuz they eat that, and they need food and better places to hang out during their annual migrations. I wouldn't mind planting milkweed. I loved it as a kid but so little grew around where I could see it, so I didn't even know what "milkweed" was till I was maybe 7 and my mom showed me a milkweed plant in the field next to Dairy Isle (said field now being under the parking lot for the Beer Engine but anyway). She showed me how when you peeled the pod partway it looked like a banana, and when it was all peeled it looked like whitefish. And when she was little, kids would gather a bunch of pods and play grocery store using the pods as bananas or as fish, for groceries to sell. And of course eventually if you don't pick the pods they burst open and send those little puffs flying about, which I was always taught were fairies, carrying our messages to the Queen.
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Monarchs are cool. I read where we should all plant a patch of milkweed cuz they eat that, and they need food and better places to hang out during their annual migrations. I wouldn't mind planting milkweed. I loved it as a kid but so little grew around where I could see it, so I didn't even know what "milkweed" was till I was maybe 7 and my mom showed me a milkweed plant in the field next to Dairy Isle (said field now being under the parking lot for the Beer Engine but anyway). She showed me how when you peeled the pod partway it looked like a banana, and when it was all peeled it looked like whitefish. And when she was little, kids would gather a bunch of pods and play grocery store using the pods as bananas or as fish, for groceries to sell. And of course eventually if you don't pick the pods they burst open and send those little puffs flying about, which I was always taught were fairies, carrying our messages to the Queen.
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