Common milkweed pods are a native vegetable that could be as familiar at summer greenmarkets as okra. As a food, milkweed still resides on the foraging fringes, or on rare restaurant menus ...

Check out the Monarch Joint Venture for more information on how to collect seeds from milkweed pods. To order seeds, contact the Live Monarch foundation.. Next, learn how to get rid of aphids on ...

Richland County residents are invited to help the declining monarch butterfly population by collecting milkweed seed pods now through Oct. 31.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The monarch butterfly population in Ohio has declined by an estimated 80% over the past 30 years. One effort to reverse the trend is to promote more growth of native milkweed.

Richland County residents are invited to help the declining monarch butterfly population by collecting milkweed seed pods now through Oct. 31.

Milkweed seeds are dried and stratified within their pods in the natural temperatures of a Maine winter, which helps the vitality of the seed. The seeds take five to six weeks to dry, and they can be ...

Save some milkweed pods to craft into beautiful dahlias, birds, butterflies, fairies and more. Just start experimenting with paint, hot glue, florist wire and other natural materials.

Lucas SWCD is asking community members to collect fully mature, dry milkweed pods from established plants on their property and drop them off now until Oct. 31 at the nearest pod collection station.

In late summer and early fall, the milkweed flowers die and give way to bumpy football-shaped green seed pods. Each pod contains up to 200 seeds. Each seed is attached to a bit of fluff called floss.

He had indeed found milkweed pods, and assuming he obtained permission from the property owner to harvest them, they could be planted in a Northeast Ohio yard in one of three ways.