The Butterfly Gardens of Wisconsin in Appleton, August 21, 2024. PC: Fox 11 Online
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – The Butterfly Gardens of Wisconsin continue to draw visitors from around the region but the owner isn’t sure how much longer the attraction has left under their ownership.
Owner Jack Voight posted on the gardens’ website: “We may close the Gardens for 2025. We need to retire. Hopefully, we can find a partner or a buyer for the Gardens.”
This summer the gardens have been open just Wednesdays and Saturday. The final day for visitors is Sept. 4.
“We’re just taking a small step at this time,” Voight said. The owner said they want any potential buyers to share in the Voight’s original mission, and vision, of the Gardens.
Visitors can continue making trips to Outagamie County to see more than 40 types of butterflies that our native to the area. They can also take in more than 100 species that are native to Wisconsin.
“Butterflies and pollinators provide 30 percent of food,” Voight said. “So we need to encourage people in the community, nation and worldwide to make sure we have more pollinators in our environment. If we don’t we lose 30 percent of our food supply.”
The Gardens have continued their Monarch Raising Project this year. Voight sells monarch-raising kits which include a large monarch cage, two milkweed plants with monarch caterpillars and instructions on how to raise the monarchs.
Tickets to the Gardens are $10 for adults, $5 for kids and free for kids two and under.
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