Sunflowers for Wishes

In 2003 at the suggestion of a friend, we planted a one acre field of sunflowers. As they began to blossom, we learned that people were coming from many miles away to admire and photograph them.

We planted the sunflowers for people to admire their beauty and to compliment our rural environment. Although the flowers were beautiful, we had not thought about what we were going to do with them. When the blooms expired, we used them as feed for our cows.
We felt that we could find a better use for the flowers, and in turn, have established the "Sunflowers for Wishes" fundraiser.

The fundraiser is to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Connecticut, a non-profit organization devoted to making wishes possible for children with life-threatening medical conditions.

In 2004 we planted 10 acres of sunflowers, providing approximately 300,000 blooms for your viewing pleasure. As the event has been so popular we will continue to plant 14 acres again this year.

We will be cutting bouquets of sunflowers and giving them to you in exchange for a $5.00 donation to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. We give 100% of all proceeds directly to Make-A-Wish. We also have t-shirts available, and the sunflower design on the front of the shirt changes every year.

THANK YOUSince 2004 our Sunflowers For Wishes fundraisers for Make-A-Wish Foundation of Connecticut have been a huge success.It has ran for ten days in each of the last years, and we have been able to raise a total of over $235,050.We’d like to thank each of youwho visited our farm and madea donation during this event

NEXT YEARS EVENTPlans are well underway for this year's event, which will be happening from 10 a.m. to dusk the week of July 18 - 26th 2009.We'd appreciate your help in making this year's event the best ever, so mark your calendars!

TAKE A HAYRIDETractor drawn hayrides daily from4 pm – dusk and on weekends10 am – dusk. The ride is 3/4 ths ofa mile through cow pastures and4 acres of the sunflower fields inbloom. All proceeds benefit theMake-A-Wish Foundation Check out pictures of our Sunflower Celebration Hayride

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