What's Happening Now?

• Starting in March, monarchs are making their way north from Mexico and inland from the California coast to find fresh milkweed seedlings to lay eggs on.  They will continue this process of searching out healthy breeding habitats all summer long. 

• Milkweed tips start poking through the soil as early as the first week of April, depending on your location in Utah. Some don't push through until into May.

• Monarchs typically arrive in Utah sometime in May, and stay throughout September and into October. The population is quite small early on. However, every 30 days or so, another wave of monarch eggs hatch, and the tiny caterpillars get busy eating milkweed. Utah has the most robust population of the year in late August and all of September.

Each October, we open our order form for native milkweed seeds.  This order usually closes around December 31, or sooner if our supplies run out. 

If you still want native milkweed seeds this spring, the latest we will send out will be March 31.  Please email Rachel using the email address at the very bottom of this page.

Visit us again in the fall for the order form link!

Late fall is the best and easiest time to sow milkweed seeds outside, whether in the ground or in pots.   Cover the seeds with 1/4" soil.  The rain/snow freeze/thaw process of winter helps to break down the tough shells enabling the seeds to germinate when temperatures warm in the spring. 

Mark your seed locations.  Watch for signs of sprouting beginning in April through June, depending on location in Utah.  The first few monarchs arrive in the state in May, laying eggs that will hatch in June.