The Healthy Living Market in the
Wilton Mall hired a local eco-friendly
landscape designer Jesse Elwert Peters of
Jessecology to renovate the landscaping
outside the store. An organic edible garden
was planted that includes many perennials
indigenous to New York state, which cumulatively
forms a new habitat for Monarch
butterflies to use during migration and
breeding seasons.
The gardens are located in the mall parking
lot and the site has been registered as
a certified Monarch waystation with the
national organization Monarch Watch. A
certified habitat placard issued by Monarch
Watch will be displayed in one of the
mall island beds to demonstrate the urban
habitat at Healthy Living’s connected part
to all of the Monarch habitat on their annual
migration route.