9th annual NH Monarch Festival Sept. 11

CANTERBURY — The news about Monarch Butterflies this year is distressing — but the 9th annual NH Monarch Festival will provide hands-on tools and expert advice on how families can sustain and improve habitat for migrating Monarchs and other vital pollinators, all while giving kids fun ways to celebrate and learn about these amazing creatures. Saturday, Sept, 11, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Kids are FREE; suggested donations per adult.

The NH Monarch Festival, held annually at Petals in the Pines in Canterbury since 2013, focuses on increasing public awareness of the Monarch’s plight and ways for families to help them. The Festival will include kids’ activities and games, the “Tale Trail” (featuring a book written by children about milkweed and Monarchs), educational and nature art vendors, butterfly tagging demonstration, book author readings, two new labyrinths (one contemplative, one kid-friendly), “Ask-a-Master-Gardener” table, FREE milkweed seeds, 2 miles of woodland trails and garden paths, hundreds of flower varieties, and much more.

For updates and important COVID-19 and Festival guidelines, visit petalsinthepines.com/monarch-festival

At the NH Monarch Festival, visitors will see how native trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses can do vital work of feeding pollinators, managing water, and sequestering carbon — and look beautiful at the same time.