You Can Make A Difference

Join the Great Sunflower Project.

Can you plant a few sunflower seeds?  Do you have a 1/2 hour to count the bees that visit it and report the amount?  Great!  You are now a perfect candidate for the project.  You can help create a habitat to understand and protect our pollinators. Sure you'll have to wait til next spring to start planting your sunflowers, but keep the project in mind and plan ahead.

All you do is:

• Sign up at
• Plant sunflower seeds
• Describe your garden
• Count how many bees visit your flower in 5 minutes
• Report your observations

Are you a teacher or a student?  Here is a great project for the whole class.  It's also a fun project for community centers, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, even nursing homes.  By last May, about 30,000 people from every US state and province in Canada signed up to participate this year.  They can even send you the seeds!  Just think, by planting a few sunflower seeds, you are not only supporting bees, but the environment overall.  Trees, flowers and crops must have pollinators to be productive.  By making that contribution, you're also helping support the food production that is important to us all.

Ask your family and friends to join and make it a group project.  Don't worry about forgetting by the time spring rolls around, I'll post this again after the first of the year to remind everybody. 

Sign up at http://www.greatsunflower.org/

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