Discover how sunflowers combine beauty, environmental benefits, and income opportunities for farms and small businesses. Participants will learn about sunflower history, production practices, pollinator benefits, cut-flower marketing, and the economics of sunflower enterprises in Missouri.
Topics include:
- The history and importance of sunflowers
- Sunflower varieties and characteristics
- Growing sunflowers
- Pollination, bees, and wildlife benefits
- Seeds
- Sunflowers as cut-flower
- Missouri's cut-flower industry
- Specialty crop and small farm opportunities
- Harvesting, handling, and marketing sunflowers
- Economics of sunflower production
Wednesday, September 23
6:00-7:30 p.m.
Andrew County Youth Building
201 S. Banyan St.
Savannah, MO 64485
* There is an alternative date and site for the same program if this one doesn't fit your schedule.
Wednesday, September 16 - 6:00-7:30 p.m. at the Buchanan County Extension Office
301 County Park Rd. Easton, MO 64443 click here to go to that event Sunflowers: Beauty, Bees and Business - Buchanan
A registration fee of $10 per person will be charged.
Register online or call the Buchanan County Extension Office to register (816)279-1691. *This office is handling registration for both events.
Whether you're a gardener, farmer, beekeeper, or entrepreneur, discover how sunflowers can turn sunshine into beauty, biodiversity, and business opportunity.
