Flax at Clearview Farm.

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Canola at Clearview Farm in Champaign.

Provided by Sophia Hortin

We’re nonetheless Greater than a month away from the return of sunflowers to bproperen our day.

However Clearview Farms has An excellent deal of colour To current till then. Flax and canola (proper) are blooming in simply accessible areas shut to the intersection of Interstates 57 and 74 — simply south of The highschool of St. Thomas Extra — in Champaign.

On Tuesday, Clearview Farms hosted its first area journey: 16 teachers involved Inside the Champaign County Farm Bureau Basis’s Summer time Ag Institute had a Search round.

The tempo will decide up as sunflowers break by way of “in mid-July,” said JIM GOSS, Vice chairman of farms for The Atkins Group.

A yr in the past, sunflowers planted at Stone Creek in Urbana created A pleasing distraction Inside the midst of a doldrum-inducing pandemic.

The Atkins Group’s Sophia Hortin is cleverly monitoring the progress at Clearview Farms on Fb and Instagram. She’ll take over The Information-Gazette’s Snapchat Inside The approaching days for A higher Take A look at what’s blooming and what’s To return. Search for “Information-Gazette” on the app.

Final yr, The Atkins Group planted 34 acres of sunflowers On the Stone Creek subdivision in southeast Urbana, which turned one factor of a social media sensation As quickly as All of them bloomed.

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