While you were on your favourite golf course this summer, an amazing environmental story was unfolding around you — and chances are good you didn’t even notice.

That is, that more and more golf course superintendents are finding places at their facilities to let milkweed grow and flourish.

Without milkweed, the Monarch butterfly — already an endangered species — could become extinct.

“About 10 years ago I was at Markland Woods Golf Club in Toronto and we were working with the Audubon Society,” Owen Russell, the master superintendent at Hamilton Golf and Country Club, said of the international conservation organization. “We realized the importance of milkweed and leaving it rather than taking it down.”

Owen Russell, the master superintendent at Hamilton Golf and Country Club. Brent Lo

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