29 Mar 2021

Harvest time for millions of south Canterbury sunflowers

From Checkpoint, 6:24 pm on 29 March 2021

Millions of sunflowers on a south Canterbury farm are just weeks away from harvest.

By next month the sunflower seeds will be processed into cooking oil, making it one of New Zealand's only locally grown sunflower oil - soon to be ready for the domestic market.

Our reporter Eleisha Foon and camera man Nathan McKinnon went to find out the story behind the farm and its growers.