Monarchs and Milkweed
MISSION MONARCH:
RESTORING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, ONE PLANT, ONE NEIGHBORHOOD AT A TIME
SEE OUR FREE UPCOMING MILKWEED GIVEAWAYS AROUND LA AND VENTURA COUNTY!
VOLUNTEER AT OUR NURSERY TO HELP GROW MILKWEED AND OTHER NATIVE PLANTS!
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Sowing narrowleaf milkweed in a pot
Transplanting narrowleaf milkweed
Sowing narrowleaf mllkweed in the ground
BECOME A VOLUNTEER OR INTERN
Volunteers and interns are at the heart of all our programs. Whether it’s volunteering one day a year, joining us weekly for seed cleaning, or becoming a restoration intern, the plants and parks can use all the help you have to offer!
WHAT DOES A NATIVE PLANT VOLUNTEER DO?
Volunteers can help us with routine nursery tasks like seed cleaning, plant propagation and native plant potting up. Some volunteers prefer the solitude and technical aspects of seed cleaning, while others enjoy the group camaraderie of planting hundreds of white sage plants into larger containers. A few even get trained to help us with herbarium curation and data keeping. Which of these can you step in to help us with?
WHAT DOES A NATIVE PLANT INTERN DO?
Our interns are put through a unique hands-on training program touching most or all aspects of our native plant nursery and restoration programs. From basic mapping and GIS skills, seed collecting, plant propagation and field restoration, our goal is to introduce interns to a little California botany, native plant horticulture, and ecological restoration all at once.
Volunteering with the SAMOFund native plant nursery is powerful! It helps you use and gain skills in native plant identification, gardening and botany while helping us to grow local plants for restoration and public giveaways!
