🌻💛🖤 The sunflower is native to North America and first was grown as a crop by indigenous tribes over 4,500 years ago.
Native Americans cultivated the sunflower from the original bushy, multi-headed plant to produce a single-stemmed plant bearing a large flower.
The crop’s many uses included milling for flour or meal production to make bread and cakes. Seeds were roasted, cracked and eaten whole, either as a snack or mixed with other grains and nuts and made into a type of granola. 🖤💛🌻