Location
Coralville Public Library
E. Jean Schwab Auditorium
1401 5th Street
Coralville, IA 52241
RSVP: 515-294-5429 or ilf@iastate.edu

Iowa Learning Farms will host a monarch and pollinator habitat workshop on Tuesday, March 18th from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Coralville Public Library. We welcome farmers, landowners, and urban residents to attend the free workshop and join us for a complimentary meal.

Pollinators, like farmers, help ensure the world eats. It is estimated that about 75% of the world’s flowering plants and about 35% of the world’s food crops depend on animal pollinators. Monarchs are ecologically important as pollinators and are symbolic wildlife used by biodiversity conservation initiatives as exemplary flagship species. The iconic species migrates across U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico, as well as across dozens of U.S. states, especially the Midwestern Corn Belt and Iowa in search of milkweed for both nectar resources and laying their eggs. This workshop will provide an opportunity to learn more about monarchs and integrating pollinator habitat into Iowa’s landscape.

The workshop will be hosted by Katherine Kral-O'Brien, Iowa State University Assistant Professor in Natural Resource Ecology and Management and co-leader of the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium, Mykayla Hagaman, Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium program specialist, Stephanie Shepard, Iowa Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Diversity Biologist, and Jon Dahlem, Iowa State University postdoctoral research associate.

The event will be held at the Coralville Public Library E. Jean Schwab Auditorium, 1401 5th Street, Coralville and is free and open to farmers, landowners, and urban residents though we require reservations to ensure adequate space and food. Meeting participants will be asked to park in areas other than the two rows closest to the Library of the parking lot. Attendees will enjoy a complimentary meal and be entered in a drawing for ISU Prairie Strips honey. For reasonable accommodations and to RSVP, please contact Liz Ripley at 515-294-5429 or ilf@iastate.edu.  Iowa Learning Farms field days and workshops are supported by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. For more information about Iowa Learning Farms, visit www.iowalearningfarms.org.