Join Friends for the Butterfly Trail Discovery Day on Saturday, June 18 from 9am-1pm. The Rosalynn Carter Center is hosting a family fun day and you're invited!
In April, 2013, Rosalynn Carter wanted to establish a butterfly garden at her home in Plains, Georgia to bring public awareness to the declining monarch butterfly population and to encourage the conservation of butterflies and their habitats. Within a few months, eleven public butterfly gardens in Plains had sprung up, many in historic sites, creating the foundation of the Rosalynn Carter Butterfly Trail.
The trail has now grown to include around 300 public, private and school gardens across the United States, Canada and Japan.
June 18 Activities:
- 9:00 am -1:00pm : Native Plant Sale & Farmers Market
- 9:00 am : Discovery Day Kickoff Event & Childrens Play
- 9:15 am - 1:00 pm : Discovery Day Stations
- Reading: A Journey Through Plains
- Pollinator Jeopardy
- Make a Butterfly Kite
- Monarch Tagging & Migration (citizen scientist project)
- Identifying Georgia Butterflies
- Life Cycles & Live Monarchs
- Pollinator Food Chain
- Georgia Native Plants Identification
- Planting Habitats
This special event is hosted by the Rosalynn Carter Butterfly Trail and the US Fish and Wildlife Services in partnership with Friends and other conservation-minded organizations. To learn more about Friends and our Butterfly Build programs, Click Here.