The main story this week is migration. A bunch of monarchs came into our area and then got penned in for a few days by all the rain and...

After much anticipation, planning, and stress, the first day of school arrived. Outside HPNC, students bounced patiently to have their...

Marilyn writes that this is a very appropriate photo for this time of year, from the slight crispiness of our annual flowers grown from...

Once we’re past this drought, the garden should rebound and enter a really nice phase where everything looks refreshed and some things...

The Hyde Park Neighborhood Club's (HPNC) programming has been scaled back dramatically in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, but the...

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...

Remember that ‘leaf-footed bug from last week? What is it really? Thanks to someone asking about it in a Facebook insect group, Marilyn...

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...

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...

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...

Two initiatives started by Hyde Parkers — the Kenwood Food Project and Feeding Frontliners — have joined forces and gained the backing of...

This week most of the students and teachers learned that our butterfly garden is hosting a few swallowtail eggs or little caterpillars...

Have you seen our teachers? Somebody said they might be in the garden!

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...

As part of their training, HPNC Summer Camp teachers are learning about raising Monarch and Swallowtail butterflies from eggs! Their...

When spring weather is dull and the garden is slowly waking up, what else can we do but wait? Well HPNC Volunteer, Marilyn Cavicchia,...

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...

Today we received a welcome note from Marilyn, our volunteer Monarch Habitat gardener: “I’ve seen our first butterflies, either red...

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

These are some flowers/weeds that Marilyn always leaves alone unless she has something else she wants to plant in the spot. Dandelions,...