{"id":2173,"date":"2022-06-13T11:44:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T18:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2022-06-13T11:52:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T18:52:42","slug":"tropical-milkweed-no-longer-be-allowed-to-be-sold-in-nurseries-or-retail-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/tropical-milkweed-no-longer-be-allowed-to-be-sold-in-nurseries-or-retail-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales of Tropical Milkweed no Longer Allowed in Nurseries or Retail Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of Tropical Milkweed are no longer allowed in any nursery or retail center in Ventura County. On June 1, 2022, the Ventura County Agricultural\/Weights &amp; Measures Office received notice from the California Department of Food and Agriculture that tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) has been designated as a destructive weed (B-rated noxious weed). Residents who would like to remove tropical milkweed from their properties are encouraged to do so. California Native Milkweed is a good alternative that supports habitats for pollinators like Monarch butterflies. For more information visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ventura.org\/agricultural-commissioner\/\">https:\/\/www.ventura.org\/agricultural-commissioner\/<\/a> or call our Agricultural\/Weights &amp; Measures Office at 805-933-2926.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of Tropical Milkweed are no longer allowed in any nursery or retail center in Ventura County. On June 1, 2022, the Ventura County Agricultural\/Weights &amp; Measures Office received notice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}