Thank you to the beautiful people who work at and watch North Dakota Today – it was a lovely morning to talk about a new pollinator garden (and Monarch waystation!) and high school students cleaning up the community.

Before we get to the video link, a couple of things: McKenzie County Schools will be doing the next Community Cleanup in April or May. Follow the District on Facebook to learn all about it!

I’m pretty sure I told my stories in the wrong order this morning so we didn’t have a chance to show off the photos from Bonnie’s Pollinator Patch, so here they are now – but first, their descriptions:

1. Bare garden plot –rototilled and prepared for planting
2. Mulch path complete and perennial seeds scattered
3. Everything growing and milkweed transplanted from McLean County
4. Butterfly ‘puddler’ (water with rocks, sand, and a pinch of salt to provide necessary minerals)
5. Mid-summer after much thinning to give lower plants more sun and room to grow
6. Fall- everything cut back but leaving cover for butterflies that over-winter  
7. Waystation signage

If you want to create your own Monarch Waystation, visit Monarch Watch for more info.

And speaking of enjoy – I hope you enjoy this week’s North Dakota Today segment, which you can watch by clicking the image below: