In recent years, our unique Carpenter Natural Area in Cortez has endured various questionable management practices, particularly the cutting of native milkweed, sumac and willows, along the main path.

Rooting milkweed cuttings is also a good way to build your stock. Cut pieces of stem with three to four nodes, wash the sap off the ends and dip the bottom in a rooting hormone. Root it in water or ...

Monarch butterflies have no choice in the matter: their existence is completely dependent on milkweed. And in recent years, the decline of milkweed in fields and gardens has brought a correlated ...

It has been an extraordinary year for monarch butterflies in our area. Gardeners throughout the state have been sharing stories of milkweed being eaten down to stubs and loads of fat caterpillars ...