Cornell Cooperative Extension Community Horticulture

is 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. Community, demonstration, and school
gardens are invited to participate.

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 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@sfsu.edu.

Do join us!

Thanks so much,

Gretchen LeBuhn
Associate Professor
San Francisco State University

Gretchen LeBuhn
The Great Sunflower Project
www.GreatSunflower.org

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