SOUTH PARIS, Maine — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer an in-person workshop for adults and youth on monarch butterflies 4 – 5:30 p.m. June 8 in South Paris.

Join Master Gardener Volunteer Nancy Donovan for “Assisting the Path of the Monarch Butterfly”, a workshop about monarch butterflies and how to raise and release them. Learn about this seasonal visitor to Maine and how planting natives can provide essential habitat. Nancy Donovan is an avid native plant gardener who raised 171 monarch butterflies from egg to release last year alone.

Registration is required; a sliding scale fee is optional. For more information or to request a reasonable accommodation, contact Robin Dunn, 207.942.7396; [email protected].

University of Maine Cooperative Extension:

As a trusted resource for over 100 years, University of Maine Cooperative Extension has supported UMaine’s land and sea grant public education role by conducting community-driven, research-based programs in every Maine county. UMaine Extension helps support, sustain and grow the food-based economy. It is the only entity in our state that touches every aspect of the Maine Food System, where policy, research, production, processing, commerce, nutrition, and food security and safety are integral and interrelated. UMaine Extension also conducts the most successful out-of-school youth educational program in Maine through 4-H.

–University of Maine Cooperative Extension