The Great Sunflower Project

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Gretchen LeBuhn, an associate professor at San Francisco State, has launched The Great Sunflower
Project. It’s a community science project which has a goal to look
at the health of local bees and how pollination both wild and garden are being
affected. As you may know, there is great concern about the bee population
in the US, and this project is targeting bees to see how they are doing
nationwide.

To join the project, they ask you to plant a native sunflower
(and they will send you seeds) and then twice a month watch a sunflower to see
how long it takes for 5 bees to visit that one flower. The information should
help them get a picture of how bees are being affected (and what state they are
in) in the hopes of setting a plan to help them. If you don’t have a garden, the website also lists public gardens where you can observe bees.

Source: www.eatlocalchallenge.com

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