Today we planted the Third Grade Butterfly Garden at Brecknock. This project aligned with our Performance Task for Module 6 where students are asked to educate the community on what we can do to help Monarch butterflies. Monarch butterflies only lay their eggs on milkweed which is the sole source of food for their caterpillars.  Milkweed is harder and harder to find in nature since humans are building and expanding. Monarchs also migrate all the way to Mexico each year for the winter and need to drink nectar from flowers to give them the energy they need for this long trip. The Brecknock Butterfly Garden has both milkweed and high-nectar producing annuals to help Monarch butterflies. We got donations of zinnias, angelonia, marigolds and lantana from the Garden Spot High School Plant Science Class. Mulch was donated by Durrell’s Estate Management. All third graders helped to plant the flowers. We hope this garden will be home to the butterflies we are releasing as well as many other wild butterflies!