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Happy Tonics
705 B Street, Suite 1
Minong, WI 54859
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Our mission is to provide sanctuary for the monarch butterfly. The purpose of Happy Tonics is to promote organic gardening, the importance of seed saving, and open pollination for biodiversity. The organization is dedicated to teaching about the risks of invasive species and genetic engineering to the food supply, and their impact on the environment, other species, indigenous and native crops, and health.
We provide educational lectures, a film, and CD photo presentations on the plight of monarch butterfly, organic gardening, and food safety issues. We offer milkweed seed to promote the planting of milkweed in order to provide habitat for the monarch. Milkweed is the host plant, and the insect is dependent upon this plant for its survival.
Editor: Mary Ellen Ryall
Copy Editor: Jackie Remlinger
Webmaster: Zot
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Sanctuary for the Monarch Butterfly
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East Coast Monarch Migration 2006
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West Babylon, New York, USA - Lorina Newburg, a Happy Tonics contributor, recently wrote about her personal experience with the monarch butterfly. An excerpt follows:
It was Saturday, September 30th, and today's plans suddenly changed from fall planting to photography as I looked into the backyard to find about three dozen monarch butterflies nectaring in my garden.
This was the moment I'd been waiting for. With this being our first year in our
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new home on the South Shore of Long Island, my milkweed plants were in their first season and not mature enough to support butterfly breeding.
I thought I'd missed out altogether this time around. How lucky to become one of monarchs' stops on their way to Mexico.
I particularly enjoy watching the parade of monarchs as they make their way along the coast. For me it's the best part of the fall season, and it helps me to deal with the sadness of watching my
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garden wither as winter approaches.
Over the past two weeks I'd seen more and more monarchs on my property with each passing day, and so I knew the time was near.
Two days ago on a nice sunny day, I counted eight beauties crossing my path, all heading in that telltale southwesterly direction. I ended up not having to go any further than my own garden.
I could only hope some would return next spring.
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Monarchs on oyamel fir trees,
El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, Mexico.
Photo by Joseph J. Lusco.
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