[1_Rain_Drop]

I read that milkweed silk was used to stuff life jackets in the days of old.

I’m saving the silk to make a comforter or pillow. I figure, if we get another flood, I have a ready made boat.

[Pelham]

Milkweed silk is used to fill ‘allergy free’ pillows and comforters. Pricey stuff.

I have milkweed plants in my garden. Monarch caterpillars have chewed all of the leaves off of most of them but they are perennials and are already leafing out again.

[Western Phil]

During WWll school children gathered bags of milkweed pods from along country roads for use in life preservers. I was too young to do that, but my older brother was involved.