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Aug 25, 2020
Garden Blog 8/25/20
According to Marilyn, this is both an ugly time and a beautiful time in the butterfly garden. Ugly, because we’re in the midst of a...
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Aug 10, 2020
Garden Blog 8/10/20
Remember that ‘leaf-footed bug from last week? What is it really? Thanks to someone asking about it in a Facebook insect group, Marilyn...
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Aug 1, 2020
Garden Blog 8/1/20
With so many flowers blooming in the HPNC butterfly garden lately, Marilyn suggests that one of the best things you can do to enjoy the...
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Jul 24, 2020
Garden Blog 7/24/20
Today Marilyn says that she’s continuing to see a lot of monarchs, and we are too! She says we can expect to see them for the rest of the...
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Jul 17, 2020
Garden Blog 7/17/20
With more flowers blooming now at the south end of the butterfly garden, we can finally offer one-stop shopping for the monarchs! We have...
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Jul 7, 2020
Block Club Chicago: HPNC Joins Resident-Led Food Programs To Feed More Families, Frontline Workers
Two initiatives started by Hyde Parkers — the Kenwood Food Project and Feeding Frontliners — have joined forces and gained the backing of...
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Jul 3, 2020
Garden Blog 7/3/20
This week most of the students and teachers learned that our butterfly garden is hosting a few swallowtail eggs or little caterpillars...
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Jun 29, 2020
Garden Blog 6/29/20
Have you seen our teachers? Somebody said they might be in the garden!
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Jun 26, 2020
Garden Blog 6/26/20
First of all, a big Hello from Ms. Marilyn! Here’s a quick summing up of things she’s seen this week/news from the butterfly garden. She...
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Jun 19, 2020
Garden Blog 6/19/20
As part of their training, HPNC Summer Camp teachers are learning about raising Monarch and Swallowtail butterflies from eggs! Their...
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Jun 13, 2020
Garden Blog 6/13/20
When spring weather is dull and the garden is slowly waking up, what else can we do but wait? Well HPNC Volunteer, Marilyn Cavicchia,...
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Jun 4, 2020
Garden Blog 6/4/20
Butterflies Spread Joy every day at HPNC and we are so glad that the Hyde Park Herald caught some of that joy in action by visiting when...
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May 1, 2020
Garden Blog 5/1/20
Today we received a welcome note from Marilyn, our volunteer Monarch Habitat gardener: “I’ve seen our first butterflies, either red...
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Apr 26, 2020
Garden Blog 4/26/20 Part 1
We will have plenty Milkweed to share with anyone who wants some for another community/school garden or at home. We always plant more than w
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Apr 26, 2020
Garden Blog 4/26/20 Part 2
These are some flowers/weeds that Marilyn always leaves alone unless she has something else she wants to plant in the spot. Dandelions,...
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Apr 1, 2020
Gardening at HPNC
Follow along with the HPNC Garden! Material from this blog comes from our wonderful Volunteer gardener and Monarch waystation keeper, Ms....
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