Drought has wreaked havoc on Dunnstown's popular Pick Your Own Sunflowers farm but the short season will end with a community fair this weekend.
On Saturday, March 1, the Clarkes Hill Community Fair will be held at the sunflower farm, adding food trucks, music, farm animals, pony rides, hot rods, face painting, and market stalls to the acres of sunflowers stretched across the paddocks.
Organizers of the annual event said they had decided to relocate the annual fair to the sunflower farm "to help a local family in need" whose farm had been "ravaged by drought and bugs".
Farmer Laiken Britt said the sunflower season would most likely end on Sunday after just three weeks, compared to the usual six to eight-week opening in previous years.
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