How does Natasha Nicholes’s homeschool garden method benefit monarch butterflies?

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Updated July 9, 20261 min read

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Natasha’s homeschool garden really leans into creating monarch habitat, not just “pretty plants.”

She plants milkweed, which is the only plant monarchs lay eggs on and the only food monarch caterpillars eat
She mixes in native nectar flowers so adult butterflies have food spring through fall
She avoids spraying weed/bug killers around those plants
She treats it as a learning lab, so kids notice caterpillars, eggs, and pollinators and are more likely to protect them