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Commenced:	01/03/2015
Submitted:	23/02/2015
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	1723 31st Ave, Seattle, Washington, US
Phone:	4252311043
Climate zone:	Cool Temperate

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Lemon Queen sunflowers and citizen SCIENCE

Project: Viretta Food Forest

Posted by Alyssa Hays over 9 years ago

Viretta will be taking part in two citizen science projects this year and I couldn't be more excited.

The first is The Great Sunflower Project www.greatsunflower.org where participants will plant a Lemon Queen sunflower and then monitor it for at least 5 minutes 3 times a season for a pollinator count.

Specifically, this process helps them to coordinate and gauge the success of projects to save the bees.

The sunflowers in question can be purchased from Renee's Garden seed company and if you use the code FR225A then 25% of your cart's total will be donated to support this project.

If you want to be involved, it appears that they've expanded the program to include all plants. Check it out!

The second project is called the Lost Lady Bug Project. Everyone loves to have these predators in their gardens and we'll be spending some time in the garden and around the neighborhood finding out about all the different varieties.

I'm especially excited to have some idea about how many beneficial bugs our efforts bring into the yard.

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