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Arizona resident challenges the show me state; Missouri, to farm pawpaws in drainage areas between farm fields (gully or draw) in an effort to promote zebra swallowtail habitat while supplementing erosion control.
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In 2019, teacher Mary McDevitt's 4th grade class civics project, led Missouri to officially adopt the pawpaw as the state "fruit tree". Tennessee recognizes the zebra swallowtail as the official "state butterfly". Santa Fe, beekeeper, Butch Landis, planted a patch of pawpaw and Cybersecurity Engineer, remote working Arizona resident, Benjamin Nelson built a road side plant stand named Santa Fee Pawpaw. This is an intentional, grassroots, effort to plant pawpaw trees in the drainage areas between farmed fields which could benefit the zebra swallowtail butterfly.
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