[Community_garden] Join the Great Sunflower Project

[Gretchen LeBuhn]

We have just launched The Great Sunflower Project, a community science
project with the goal of increasing our understanding of where bees
are doing poorly and how the pollination of our garden and wild plants
are being affected.  We're hoping you will join us by planting
sunflowers in your garden.  We are particularly interested in studying
pollination in community gardens since they are so important for food
production!

We'll send you some free native sunflower (Helianthus annuus) seed and
twice a month, we'd like you to time how long it takes for 5 bees to
visit one flower on that sunflower.  This information will give us an
index of pollination that we can compare across the United States.
Once we know where bees are in trouble, we can start developing a plan
to help them.

You can see the details about the project and register at
www.greatsunflower.org or contact us at sfbee at sfsu.edu.

Do join us!

Thanks so much,

Gretchen LeBuhn
Associate Professor
San Francisco State University

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Gretchen LeBuhn