Yorktown Creates Butterfly Sanctuary

The Yorktown Garden Club and town officials will begin planting a monarch butterfly sanctuary on Thursday, June 11th in a new community garden.

Volunteers will come to Willow Park and plant milkweed plants that nourish monarch caterpillars, as well as flowering plants that sustain mature monarch butterflies. The butterfly sanctuary is intended to sustain the monarchs as they migrate north and south to their summer and winter habitats in North America. The milkweed planting is the first phase of the community garden that is expected to be completed in 2021.

Who: Members of the Yorktown Garden Club and Yorktown Town Board.
What: Planting a Butterfly Sanctuary
When: Thursday, June 11th at 10 AM
Where: Willow Park at the corner of Tulip Drive and Curry Street, Yorktown, NY

Contact:  Yorktown Supervisor Matt Slater, 914-962-5722 x201 or mslater@yorktownny.org