BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 10, 2023
Maine artist Rebekah Lowell incorporated her love of monarch butterflies and her own history as a domestic abuse survivor to create the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association 2023 Common Ground Fair poster. Titled “Monarchs and Milkweed,” Lowell’s submission was judged by MOFGA staff and volunteers and was unveiled Tuesday at the Maine Agricultural Trade Show in Augusta. The poster depicts the life cycle of the monarch butterfly with cocoons, caterpillars and flying adults on and around stems of flowering milkweed, the monarch’s preferred habitat plant.