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Wildflower seeds will encourage pollination, crop yields

CORINNA RICHARDSON corinna.richardson@thefacts.com
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Mar 6, 2021
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Harvest for the Hungry President David Huang and guests shoot wildflower seeds out of cannons on a field in Freeport on Friday. The nonprofit hosted the event where they had 55 cannons filled with seeds to spread around a field.

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Guests embrace as they help spread wildflower seeds at Harvest for the Hungry in Freeport on Friday. The nonprofit had attendees of the event shoot seeds out of 55 cannons.

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Jason Cordoba shoots wildflower seeds out of a cannon at the Harvest for the Hungry farm in Freeport on Friday. The nonprofit hosted the event where they had 55 cannons filled with seeds to spread around a field.

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Wildflower seeds and confetti are scattered throughout the dirt at a Wildflower event at the Harvest for the Hungry property in Freeport on Friday.

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Brenda Martin reaches for a cannon containing wildflower seeds at Harvest for the Hungry in Freeport on Friday. The nonprofit invited community members to spread the seeds throughout a field, and tour its farm.

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Attendees of a wildflower event at Harvest for the Hungry listen to President David Huang speak at the farm in Freeport on Friday. Huang hosted the event, where guests helped spread wildflower seeds to grow this spring.

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L aunching wildflower seeds from a party cannon may not be the most common way to plant flowers, but it is certainly one of the most memorable.

Dozens of people attended Harvest for the Hungry’s inaugural wildflower planting event Friday for tours of the facility, hors d’oeuvres and refreshments and the chance to pop one or more of 55 wildflower seed cannons to help plant a tilled field.