Adam Prudhomme
Editor
A new kind of agro-tourism will be blooming at Greater Napanee’s Wynn Farms this summer.
After two years of preparation, owners Sarah and Jim Wynn are ready to open their pick-your-own floral bouquet. The new venture is slated to open mid July, just up the road from their popular Wynn Farms orchard.
“We just want to give people a different type of outing,” said Sarah. “Jim and I we’ve got a passion for agro-tourism so this is just another way to work during our slower time. It’ll be a really great opportunity for people to be able to go right out into their field, pick their own bouquets. We’re going to have a sunflower field set up as well so people will be able to come out and wander through a path of sunflowers.”
The flower field is located on a stretch of land off Hwy 33 that stretches to the shore of Lake Ontario, right night to Bergeron Estate Winery and Cider Company in Adolphustown.
Guests will have the option to pick sunflowers or venture into a wild flower section that will be a mix of Rudbeckia, Bells-of-Ireland, Zinnia, Cress, Yarrow, Amaranth and more. They’ll be able to mix and match to create their very own floral display.
“Things that you might not actually see when you go to a florist to purchase a bouquet,” said Sarah as to what will grow in the field. “A lot of these things might be something that people aren’t familiar with but really the focus is a lot of vibrant, coloured flowers.”
The pick-your-own flowers will be open seven days a week from mid July to September with a handful of events planned throughout the season such as a kids teddy bear picnic and a girls night.
The Wynn family began planting the field two years ago and have done a few trial runs to get ready for this summer. As the season gets closer there are currently thousands of seedlings growing in their basement.
This venture will be the first of its kind in the area and it comes at the perfect time.
“With the last couple of years being long, isolating years for people it’s a great way for people to be outdoors and reconnect with some loved ones,” said Sarah. “It’ll be a really great mental health get away but they won’t have to travel too far.”
Just as the flower season ends the apple-picking season will be in full swing, complete with the always-popular corn maze.
For more information on the farm, visit www.WynnFarms.ca.