Monarch butterflies (Photo – USFWS)
Help declining Monarch butterfly populations by joining South Pasadena’s first Milkweed Restoration and Giveaway.
By Katlyn Ong
Friends of South Pasadena Nature Park is collaborating with Monarch Mami and Santa Monica Mountains Fund to bring you this exciting and fun event.
Plant milkweed in the Nature Park and take some home for your own garden. Learn about the relationship between Monarch butterflies and milkweed, and why native milkweed and other native pollinator plants provide the best food and habitat for our local fauna.
Registered volunteers who work a minimum of 90 minutes will be eligible to take home up to 6 free milkweed plants – while supplies last. To register for free, click here.
Volunteers should:
- Wear sunscreen, hat, sunglasses
- Bring plenty of water
- Bring gardening gloves and tools (weeders, trowels, whatever you use in your own garden). There are extra tools and gloves for those who need them.
- Wear comfortable work clothes, including work shoes (sneakers or boots) and long pants
- Bring binoculars for birdwatching (optional)
- Children must be under adult supervision at all times. There is poison oak in the park that will be pointed out before starting.
The South Pas Nature Park is a 4-acre habitat park along the Arroyo Seco. The upper entrance, marked by a small plaque on an attractive river rock wall, is in the 100 block of Pasadena Avenue in South Pasadena, east of the York Street Bridge. There is plenty of on-street parking on Pasadena Avenue. The lower entrance is just past the Arroyo Seco Golf Course driving range. Parking is available at the Golf Course Clubhouse at 1055 Lohman Ln. with additional parking on Lohman Ln. west of the tennis courts. Walk westward to the park from the pedestrian path located at the west end of Lohman Ln.
Milkweed Restoration and Giveaway June 21, 2025 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Location Nature Park 100 Pasadena Ave. South Pasadena, CA 91030
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