Gap Refinement: artifact to share milkweed family seeds.
List of Needs: Promote Planting of Milkweed for Monarchs
Way to Share Seeds
Provide Motivation-Information for Planting Milkweed
Low-minimal Cost
Low Maintenance-storage
Appealing-quality item
List of Needs: Promote Planting of Milkweed for Monarchs
Way to Share Seeds
- make people want to plant it
Provide Motivation-Information for Planting Milkweed
- “inform” about need (RA)
- focus on butterfly more than Milkweed (KN)
- butterfly is why you plant it(KN)
- people liked information sheets(RA)
- show #s of trends/need(KN)
- make people feel part of "something" bigger (KN)
- inform about the migration path and need for milkweed as host (not nectar) (TT)
- we stand around a table and educate and distribute(TT)·
- secondary to“speech” about the need(GT)
- emphasis on education rather than actually planting(GT)
- ! inform about VA Master Naturalists(RA)
- get people to feel it is imporatnt (KN)
- get people to be zealous about it and talking about it(KN)
Low-minimal Cost
- low cost(RA)
- low cost(TT)
- donated product desired rather than purchased or funded(GT)
- minimal cost(JM)
- economy class (KN)
- ! look moderately pretty, not just functional
Low Maintenance-storage
- Storeable until needed --- story of pots put in fridge(RA)
- easy to prepare“item” as a giveaway(TT)
- small object kept in a pocket like a business card with seeds(JM)
- low maintenance(JM)
- protects the seeds until planting(JM)
- seeds must germinate
- make it easy for people to plant milkweed (RA)
- have done pots with planted seeds and brochure (Blacks Run Event) (RA)
- people seemed reluctant to take a starter peat pot(RA)
- appeal to both children and adults, knowing that adults want ease of doing(GT)
- could be a planting event rather than item given(GT)
- ! can be“expanded” to be part of craft activity with adults and
youth at butterfly release(JM) - not set on any particular “kind” of object as giveaway(GT)
Appealing-quality item
- quality-professional-interesting(RA)
- pretty/appealing item that catches attention(TT)
- can be used in thank you’s to benefactors of the CA(JM)
- ! maybe something that would be for a donation(TT)
- ! seeds could be from our plants as a promotional item (will check on that) (GT)
- ! small object kept in a pocket like a business card with seeds(JM)
- ! tie to holidays and events (KN)