Students make seed balls in hopes of saving Iowa monarchs
April 21, 2017
The students met in the courtyard on April 21.
The group created balls with milkweed seeds in them.
The finished milkweed seed balls.
All of the seed balls will either be planted by the students or donated to RAGBRAI riders to be planted across the state.
On a cool and cloudy day, a group of West students gathered in the courtyard to help save Iowa’s monarch butterflies. Haley Shook ’18 set up a space for the students to make small clay balls with milkweed plants seeds inside them, through a program called “Milkweed Matters.”
Shook said that the end goal is “to not have monarch butterflies go extinct … [the milkweed allows them] to have food while they’re migrating.”
The seed balls will either be distributed by the students or donated to RAGBRAI, a bicycle race across Iowa in July. The participants will stop every so often along the race to throw the seeds next to the road.
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