April is Citizen Science Month! Here are ways to get involved at your library, at school, or at home.
Our family Kid Citizen Science spring project will be the Great Sunflower Project. We’ve got our Lemon Queen sunflower seeds and are ready to plant this weekend and start tracking pollinators.
This should be the kid-friendliest project ever, as long as you have the garden space to grow sunflowers. Thanks to my tilling up half the yard in 2020 to create an enormous, impromptu pandemic garden plot, we do! I also now have a small traveling band of free-range neighborhood pandemic pod children who roam my yard wearing Covid-19 face masks. My daughter Emma, the neighbor girls, and I already had the best time prepping my two raised beds (read: playing in the dirt) and planting seeds together in March. We’ll have fresh spinach, kale, lettuce, collards, and arugula for salads all spring long.
I’m looking forward to involving all of the kids in the pollinator project and to sharing our garden photos. Send me yours!
