This is the time every year where I just don’t see how we will have sunflowers in time for our opening on July 22, but it always works out–these things grow about an inch and a half a day, you can almost see it happening!

Good morning–the sunflowers’ progress has made us confident to set the dates for the festival. Wednesday, July 22 – Sunday evening, July 26. Same hours as last year–10:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. We will still have live music and will be posting the music info soon–we have some other new features and we will be…

You can barely see the four rows of sunflowers–thank goodness they came up before that crazy rain last night!!

After fertilizing, tilling, planting with a one row push planter, covering and rolling, we finished up planting 35,000 sunflower seeds Wednesday afternoon–let’s just hope the rain this morning was not too much!

You would think that after all these years, this field would be clear–but, no, the Ozarks grow rocks!! I cannot have this rocky situation, I want all my little sunflower seeds to push up through the ground and cannot take a chance of a rock being in the way!! So, we pick them up, and…

We had a great time yesterday at the Sunflower Festival. Uke 66 were so good last night and we are really looking forward to seeing The Missing Man Trio today and Amy Marrone and Relative Rhythm tonight!

Thanks to everyone that came out on Wednesday and Thursday–we had an amazing time. The Shandies started us off right on Wednesday night, we had a crowd we were not expecting and we scrambled to park folks, but Nelson mowed more of the pasture and the parking went very smoothly last night. Great turn out…

The flowers look great and more blooming every hour!