Sunflowers: A Symbol of the American Dream?
Buttonwood Farm in Griswold, Connecticut specializes in two things--no, three: sunflowers, ice cream, and sunflower ice cream.
This family-run farm holds a sunflower festival every year. People wander through acres of sunflowers and then stand on a long line for ice cream of every flavor and hue, including purple Maine-wild-blueberry ice cream. Some kids had purple lips and purple splotches on their faces and shirts.
Instead of red, white and blue, how about yellow and purple?
The farm plants 14 acres of sunflowers every year. Bunches are on sale for $5. All sunflower proceeds go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The farm has raised more than $500,000 since 2004. Visit next August. Your eyes will be rewarded.
Up close and personal, like the bee in the center.
Picturesque Connecticut farmland.
A new kind of tractor pull.
Connecticut farmhouses in the distance.
For sale, $5 a bunch. All sunflower proceeds go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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