Aj Goverdhan

Genevieve took time out to host her own screening party for the movie ” Jane.” She had a lot of fun sharing the life and works of her hero, Dr Jane Goodall, by inviting some of her friends to watch with her.

The National Wildlife Federation’s Magazine’s 2018 Special Issue on Gardening for Wildlife will include a story on Genevieve’s expansive work with Monarch Butterflies.

In an effort to spread the word to her friends at school, Genevieve has given a Monarch Butterfly tagging/processing demonstration at her elementary school: Bellevue Santa Fe Charter School. Her school has now been officially certified by the National Wildlife Federation as a Certified School Wildlife Habitat! Check out the NWF’s website to see…[Read more]

Genevieve received the Mayors Monarch Pledge Proclamation in November, 2017. G will now assist the City of San Luis Obispo’s Natural Resource Manager, Bob Hill, in building demonstrator gardens and find ways to provide more pollinator habitat for Monarchs, bees and other pollinators throughout the city.

On November 21, 2017, 11 year old Genevieve Leroux, is going to receive a Proclamation from the Mayor of San Luis Obispo, California when Mayor Heidi Harmon takes the National Wildlife Federation’s Mayors’ Monarch Pledge. Genevieve wrote the Mayor this summer and asked for a meeting to discuss the Mayors’ willingness to take the NWF’s Mayors’…[Read more]

I have started giving out my plants (some have Monarch eggs and/or caterpillars already on them) so my community will be ready for both the Fall and Spring migrations of the Monarchs. I have learned it is important to understand that the California native milkweed should be used in larger restoration projects to try and avoid problems with…[Read more]

I have now collected the plants from the wholesale nursery who has been so helpful with my project and am finally ready to plant each milkweed plant in separate pots to offer my plants for free to those promising to plant them. My only request from the recipients who take my milkweed plants is a pledge to plant and care for them and letting me…[Read more]

I have grown the native milkweed Asclepias Fascicularis from seed with the help of a local wholesale nursery. I have given all of the plants away to friends and neighbors. Many of the plants had monarch eggs and/or small caterpillars on the leaves already because I grew the plants next to my own butterfly garden that is very good at attracting…[Read more]