10/11/2022
October 11, 2022
There are always alternatives…..
There have been several social media feeds recently about Halloween, Halloween candy, and the people who choose to wrap dangerous, illegal drugs in candy wrappers….or wrappers that look like candy on first glance. People’s frustrations come through on the posts due to candy being the time-honored Halloween tradition.
In recent years I’ve been looking for other alternatives to hand out. Candy has served as a last resort if everything else disappears first. I’ve handed out pencils, Glo-sticks, stickers, and erasers. This year I found something different. Due to my environmental education work, I came across an organization Save Our Monarchs Foundation out of Minneapolis, MN. For a donation of the same amount, or maybe even less, that would be spent on candy, they send out milkweed seed packets.
Their website is: https://www.saveourmonarchs.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saveourmonarchs
Save Our Monarchs is dedicated to saving the monarch butterfly by planting more milkweed.