MUNCY, Pa. — The bees are buzzing, the sun is shining, and so is a flower. It's sunflower season at Today Farm and Market near Muncy. It was a challenging spring for owner Joshua Leidhecker; the continuous rainfall made it difficult to plant the flowers.

"But with all of this rain, it really grew incredibly well, and they started to flower about a week early, so we have a sunflower festival this weekend, and the timing's a little off," said Joshua Leidhecker, Today Farm and Market Owner and Operator

Leidhecker faced other difficulties as well; some of the sunflowers came up before others, and the weeds were hard to manage due to the rainy spring. Despite the challenges, Leidhecker says during the first or second week of August is when sunflowers start to bloom. Sunflowers are drought-res

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