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Hope to one day buy a bunch of land in the middle of nowhere Texas and blanket it in milkweed and other supporting plants.

I bought a few packets of seeds as salad greens this year, with a pack of sunflowers (nice to eat as young shoots apparently), chervil (not a fan) and something else; I've now got about 30-40 big sunflowers in my little garden plot, the honey bees and bumble bees are having a field day with them (and I assume the birds will with the seeds afterwards). Little crickets (relaxing songs at night), ladybugs etc have all moved in, and they look great.

Onto milkweeds next I guess, and something for the native Aussie bees too.

I'm surprised there aren't collective coordination apps for things like this.

Meetup.com probably has groups for those sort of things.

I thought Meetup is more so for physical meetings.

I'm finding that libraries in Colorado and upstate NY are receptive to playing an expanded role.

It turns out that providing seeds one may 'check out' for a season, and maintaining gardens of native plants as a teaching platform is generally compatible with their traditional role as stewards of knowledge.