Entry Submitted by Fireswan at 3:42 PM EDT on April 27, 2019
Deciding to set up a monarch butterfly sanctuary in my front yard was a bold move a few years ago when I did it. I had already set up a different type of landscaping. Instead of the thirsty Kentucky bluegrass that all over lawns in the neighborhood use, I planted native Colorado buffalo grass to be my “official lawn” that’s required by the home owner’s association. You don’t mow this low-growing grass if a thick mat is desired. So that it’s green in the spring (buffalo grass doesn’t turn green until summer), I planted a carpet of crocus, which you don’t mow either. The crocus blooms in the early Spring, makes a carpet that looks like a lawn and then dries up disappears right when the buffalo grass greens up and looks like a lawn.
Within this lawn, I planted milkweed.
Throughout the lawn area, I planted over 100 milkweed plants, which grow to over 5 feet tall by the end of the season. I got my monarch waystation habitat sign and wildlife preserve destination.
Many people walk their kids and dogs past my property. They ask how they can grow milkweed so that they too can grow butterflies. I give them seeds. Show them how. Some don’t have a space on their property that isn’t mowed every week by the lawn company. I teach them how to grow tropical milk indoors and how to raise a monarch on a pretty houseplant. They can get an egg or caterpillars from my yard and bring it home to grow on their milkweed houseplant. No houseplant? Cut some milkweed and grow butterflies in clear plastic tennis ball cans.
What has organically happened here?
Community is forming. People are inspired to help nature re-establish itself. And, once you’ve raised a monarch butterfly by hand, you’ll be forever transformed. The butterfly tames you. Flutters automatically emerge from within. Flutters are contagious. Everyone around can’t help their unexpected smiling. They want to play with butterflies too. A community forms around buffalo grass and milkweed that wasn’t there before.
And some people stop mowing and start Fluttering.
How does this save children?
We start thinking differently about our kids. We start looking after them differently. We respond to their flutters and they respond to ours.
And suicidal soldier-in-training can’t shoot a machine gun because a butterfly landed on it. A single monarch butterfly flutter saved my son. A single monarch butterfly flutter broke MK Ultra. An experience of the real life broke through the death-cult war mongering brain washing.
Flutter - Flutter - Flutter - Flight
Grow milkweed, grow monarchs. Stop mowing. Stop 2-4D treatments so you can take your shoes off and walk on the grass. Stop over-drenching grass that doesn’t belong here.
Plant buffalo grass. Watch the children play and let the child within remember what its like to chase bigger dreams.
Forward not Backwards
I AM because we ARE
Fireswan
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Dinar Chronicles is not a registered investment adviser, broker dealer, banker or currency dealer and as such, no information on the website should be construed as investment advice. We do not intend to and are not providing financial, legal, tax, political or any other advice to readers of this website.
Copyright © 2019 Dinar Chronicles
Deciding to set up a monarch butterfly sanctuary in my front yard was a bold move a few years ago when I did it. I had already set up a different type of landscaping. Instead of the thirsty Kentucky bluegrass that all over lawns in the neighborhood use, I planted native Colorado buffalo grass to be my “official lawn” that’s required by the home owner’s association. You don’t mow this low-growing grass if a thick mat is desired. So that it’s green in the spring (buffalo grass doesn’t turn green until summer), I planted a carpet of crocus, which you don’t mow either. The crocus blooms in the early Spring, makes a carpet that looks like a lawn and then dries up disappears right when the buffalo grass greens up and looks like a lawn.
Within this lawn, I planted milkweed.
Throughout the lawn area, I planted over 100 milkweed plants, which grow to over 5 feet tall by the end of the season. I got my monarch waystation habitat sign and wildlife preserve destination.
Many people walk their kids and dogs past my property. They ask how they can grow milkweed so that they too can grow butterflies. I give them seeds. Show them how. Some don’t have a space on their property that isn’t mowed every week by the lawn company. I teach them how to grow tropical milk indoors and how to raise a monarch on a pretty houseplant. They can get an egg or caterpillars from my yard and bring it home to grow on their milkweed houseplant. No houseplant? Cut some milkweed and grow butterflies in clear plastic tennis ball cans.
What has organically happened here?
Community is forming. People are inspired to help nature re-establish itself. And, once you’ve raised a monarch butterfly by hand, you’ll be forever transformed. The butterfly tames you. Flutters automatically emerge from within. Flutters are contagious. Everyone around can’t help their unexpected smiling. They want to play with butterflies too. A community forms around buffalo grass and milkweed that wasn’t there before.
And some people stop mowing and start Fluttering.
How does this save children?
We start thinking differently about our kids. We start looking after them differently. We respond to their flutters and they respond to ours.
And suicidal soldier-in-training can’t shoot a machine gun because a butterfly landed on it. A single monarch butterfly flutter saved my son. A single monarch butterfly flutter broke MK Ultra. An experience of the real life broke through the death-cult war mongering brain washing.
Flutter - Flutter - Flutter - Flight
Grow milkweed, grow monarchs. Stop mowing. Stop 2-4D treatments so you can take your shoes off and walk on the grass. Stop over-drenching grass that doesn’t belong here.
Plant buffalo grass. Watch the children play and let the child within remember what its like to chase bigger dreams.
Forward not Backwards
I AM because we ARE
Fireswan
______________________________________________________
All articles, videos, and images posted on Dinar Chronicles were submitted by readers and/or handpicked by the site itself for informational and/or entertainment purposes.
Dinar Chronicles is not a registered investment adviser, broker dealer, banker or currency dealer and as such, no information on the website should be construed as investment advice. We do not intend to and are not providing financial, legal, tax, political or any other advice to readers of this website.
Copyright © 2019 Dinar Chronicles
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