The 31st Annual Waterbury Rotary Sunflower Growing Contest known as The Hunt for Sunzilla, the Monster Sunflower, will be held on Thursday, September 12, 2024 at 5 pm at Rusty Parker Park in Waterbury during the Waterbury Farmers Market. As part of the event, the Waterbury Rotary Club will also be sponsoring an Ice Cream Social. Please join us with your amazing sunflowers. No sunflowers?? Come to cheer on the contestants.
We will be judging sunflowers for the heaviest sunflower head, the largest diameter sunflower head, and the tallest sunflower which will be crowned Sunzilla, the Monster Sunflower. Prizes include bird feeders, bird houses, sunflower seeds and gift certificates. In addition to the Waterbury Rotary Club, other sponsors and prize donors include Evergreen Gardens, Sunflower Natural Foods, Waterbury True Value Hardware and the Waterbury Farmers Market.
Along with the judging of sunflowers, we also hold an almost Olympic athletic event for kids twelve and younger – a sunflower seed spitting contest, measuring both distance and accuracy.
And finally, in conjunction with Sunzilla we are searching for the other green monster - the longest and the heaviest zucchinis. To date, the biggest zucchini that has been measured in this event weighed about 54 pounds.
All are welcome!!!
If you have any questions, please contact Waterbury Rotarian John Malter at 802-244-7373.
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