Redwood Valley’s Frey Vineyards to host native milkweed garden tour Saturday

MENDOCINO CO., 5/25/25 — In 2018, Frey Vineyards, the nation’s first organic and biodynamic winery, made a decision to support monarch butterflies by planting three milkweed species native to Mendocino County in their vineyard fencerows. Monarch caterpillars eat nothing but milkweed, and females lay their eggs on milkweed leaves.

Two years later, the company created a demonstration garden for butterflies and pollinators at its new winery site on West Road in Redwood Valley. Frey’s head gardener Carolyn Brown will lead a two-hour garden tour Sunday, June 1 that demonstrates the goal of using primarily natives that benefit insects and also provides continual bloom.