Date: 05/02/2018

Number: 1

*Milkweed grows wild in the fields at our 15-acre horse farm. For 2 years now, it has been propogated into and reappears in our perennial garden around the house where I can observe activity there noticing that it is even "naturalizing",multiplying in numbers.
*This year we noticed it first coming up around the first week of May, 2018. My family and I have been actively maintaining our land for 25 years since we bought it, as best possible to be a safe, protective habitat for all living creatures. We do not allow pesticides, insecticides nor chemicals to be used on this property.For the first 15 yrs.it was home to our pleasure horses, 2 thoroughbred mares. We no longer have horses nor do we have large animals here. Native wildflowers enhance the fields and gardens, as many butterflies, hummingbirds, bees and all insects abound. I am learning to recognize and beginning to keep track of our migratory and established families of birds as well as the Monarch Butterflies especially now that we are living here full-time after selling our beach home in coastal N. C. where I first began to garden & follow more closely the National Wildlife Fed.'s guidelines in order to be a N.W.F. habitat. Our property there and here feature: safe refuge with clean water, food via our native flowering plantings & bird feeders, plus designated butterfly "stations" with water in flat containers and rocks. We only have organic farming/gardening practices , with spaces where wildlife may co-habitatate. There is a deep pond fed by artesian wells, springs, and marshy areas nearby with protective tall grasses and trees, open fields as well as an area of a forest w/ hardwoods and pine trees. This special place is part of an undeveloped, original large farm of hundreds of acres. It is home to many species of plants and wildlife that we observe daily as well as seasonally.

Mebane, NC

Latitude: 36 Longitude: -79.3

Observed by: Debbie
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