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THURMONT, Md. (WJZ) — Who couldn’t usage much chances to spot sunflowers successful bloom?
A Thurmont workplace volition clasp its 2nd yearly Sunflower Festival, featuring 300,000 sunflowers of respective varieties and colors, successful September.
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Winterbrook Farms said its sunflower tract is 10 acres, and it’s besides location to the largest maize maze successful Maryland, according to a statement.
The festival starts Sept. 4 and 5 with “Sippin’ successful the Sunflowers,” a peculiar ticket-only lawsuit featuring vino from Catoctin Breeze Vineyard. Guests volition get a souvenir vino glass. There besides volition beryllium nutrient trucks, unrecorded music, and of course, opportunities for photos.
The festival officially starts Sept. 10 with a hayride to the field. Attendees tin manus prime their favourite sunflowers to instrumentality location by the stem oregon bucket. The workplace besides has 20 antithetic activities, including mini zip lines, a jumping pillow, and a workplace carnal petting zoo. Apple cider doughnuts, freshly squeezed lemonade and blistery popcorn volition beryllium sold.
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The festival continues Sept. 11 and 12 and 17-19.
Winterbrook Farms chose “Save the Family Farms” arsenic this year’s maze plan to bring attraction to the expanding disappearance of small, family-run farms implicit large-scale operations. Guests tin find their mode done the 15-acre maize maze that totals up to 5 miles successful length.
Guests tin pre-purchase tickets online.
If you can’t hold until September for your sunflower fix, sunflowers should beryllium returning to Jarrettsville by the extremity of the month. And if you don’t caput driving to Western Maryland, you tin spot them now.
CBS Baltimore Staff
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