[Arid_gardener] RE: Getting the word out to Master Gardener's in Arizona

[Chris Jones]

Hello - I got an error message for this email, so I'm resending it. Please
forgive if duplicate.

Please post this interesting participatory project on the Arid Gardener
Listserv

Chris 

-----Original Message-----
From: glebuhn at gmail.com [mailto:glebuhn at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Gretchen
LeBuhn
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:11 PM
To: ckjones at Ag.arizona.edu; jschalau at Ag.arizona.edu; rnorton at Ag.arizona.edu
Subject: Getting the word out to Master Gardener's in Arizona

Hi,

I found your emails on the U of A website and didn't know who to
contact.  We are trying to get the word out to all master gardener's
about our
Great Sunflower Project.  If you have a newsletter or listserver,
could you send the following to your gardeners?

We'd love to get seed to people soon!  Let me know if you have any
questions.


--
Gretchen LeBuhn


Dear Master Gardeners,

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.  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 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
-- 
Gretchen LeBuhn