Plants & Garden – Saving the Monarch

How We Started Our Butterfly Garden

Are you thinking about starting a butterfly garden? Are you looking for inspiration, or ideas? In this article, I'll explain how we started our butterfly garden, and what we've learned along the way....

Growing Milkweed in Canada

Each spring the eastern North American Monarch butterflies leave their overwintering sites in Mexico and start their journey north, reaching all the way to Canada, 3,000 miles away. Throughout this...

Which Milkweed is Best for Monarchs?

If you want to help increase the Monarch population, milkweed is the first plant you should consider adding to your garden. Milkweed is the only plant that Monarch caterpillars eat. Without milkweed,...

How You Can Help Save the Monarch

Growing up in the Midwest of the United States in the 1980s, I remember seeing Monarch Butterflies everywhere during the summer when I was a kid. It wasn't until after I started hearing and...

About Us

I'm Jeff Fulkerson. I'm happily married to Stacy and together we are raising James, who is medically fragile. Prior to James being born, we had lost a son, Jackson, during pregnancy. A few years ago, I decided to start a memorial butterfly garden in honor of Jackson. As I was researching butterfly gardens, I kept coming across articles about how the Monarch butterfly population was declining at a drastic rate, so I decided to make "Saving the Monarch" the goal of the garden. The goal of this site is to share what I've learned (and continue to learn), what's worked in our garden (and what hasn't), and to hopefully inspire you to get a little dirty and join us in helping the Monarch butterfly avoid extinction.