The Great Sunflower Project involves taking a moment to join and provide an address for the project organizers to send you free wild sunflower seeds, planting the free sunflower seeds when they arrive, then after the sunflowers are blooming, taking time to sit and log how many bees come to the sunflowers within a specific time frame. This information will be used to create a sort of map of bee populations around the world, in order to help understand the challenges bee populations face.

It’s a great idea all around; the sunflowers are beautiful, provide food for pollinators such as bees (and later, other creatures who eat the seeds) and watching the flowers is a calming activity that will help you get closer to nature.

The link is above but in case this post is read in a printed format, here’s the address:

http://www.greatsunflower.org/