Volunteers Make Milkweed Seed Bombs to Support Monarch Butterflies

We offer a special activity at many of our volunteer work days that is particularly fun for families to try–making milkweed seed bombs! The “bombs” are balls of clay, soil and native milkweed seeds that will be “cured” over the winter and distributed in the spring.

We’re cooking up some fun plans for a distribution day or days for the spring of 2019, and we have hundreds of “bombs” made, thanks to the enthusiasm and hard work of our volunteers.

Once the seeds take hold, they grow into beautiful milkweed plants, and that’s

critically important to the monarch butterfly. Monarchs can’t survive without this plant, because it is the only plant the caterpillars will eat, and the monarch needs the milkweed to lay eggs.

On our volunteer work days we set up a station for folks to make the balls of clay. In a couple of hours, we can make hundreds of them!