A recent Friday morning saw 15 Avnet volunteers, in partnership with the Desert Botanical Garden, working at Spaces of Opportunity, a 19-acre area of land in South Phoenix. Avnet is a supporter of the Great Milkweed Grow Out Program, part of DBG’s conservation research programs. The volunteers planted milkweed plants, clipped and collected seedlings and built two retention basins. The milkweed is a native plant of Arizona and is the only plant that monarch and queen butterflies will lay their eggs on, and that caterpillars can eat.
