Sunflower Season Raises Nearly $50,000 for Waialua Community Nonprofits

For more than 15 years Corteva Agriscience has been growing sunflowers on Oahu’s beautiful North Shore. The 20 acres of blooms attracted 24,500 people to the Waialua farm between July 11 – 20 and raised nearly $50,000 for Waialua High & Intermediate School. Waialua Elementary School and the Rotary Club of WahiawaWaialua, who helped manage parking and sell refreshments.

The Waialua farm is also home to approximately 400 acres of locally grown food sold in local grocery stores. Helping the North Shore farmers that grow these crops moves the state closer to its goal of
doubling local food production by 2020.

Waialua High and Intermediate School will use the money raised to install a new digital marquee on campus fronting Farrington Highway.