Fausett Farms Sunflowers - Dawsonville, Georgia

“I don’t think there’s anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me that because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that’s such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life.”

Helen Mirren

Today we adventure in the North Georgia Mountains. It is a beautiful day with blue skies and sunny and still in the 90’s in Augusta so time for cooler air. Off we go towards Dawsonville, Georgia to see a few sites we’ve been wanting to see. This is located about 160 miles from Augusta, Georgia. Let me tell you all about Fausetts Farms Sunflowers today.

Driving this way, we saw some beautiful countryside, with rolling hills, nice estates, barns, small towns, and many country stores. It was a lovely drive and took us about three hours to get there. When we drove into Fausett Farms from the main road, I told Joe it looks a lot smaller than I imagined. Well, I must say I was so wrong. It is huge. They say it has thirty acres but it seems like so much more. I must also say that it was only about five degrees cooler here than Augusta. Still felt better than usual for us.

The sunflowers are only in bloom for about three weeks and this year it opened on September 22^nd. So if you are reading this and want to go this year, get on it and go now. It is worth it. This farm used to be a poultry farm until 2011 but they decided to change it up to sunflowers and started planting them three years ago. The people who run this beautiful farm are very nice and answer any questions you want to ask. We paid the ten dollars for a carload to park and see the amazing field of sunflowers.

They told us the areas to explore and we drove to the field and parked. When we got out of the car, we met a lovely lady with her two puppies that came running out of the sunflower field. So precious. We loved on the puppies for a while and then onto exploring. Looking out at the field where we parked, lots of the sunflowers were all ready on there way out. But even in that field there were some magnificent large sunflowers to see. Now that was just one field. We enjoyed walking around the field and looking at the flowers and the spectacular views.

At the end of the field, we crossed over a small stream on a nice wooden bridge. Then we walked into the field that was prime and so beautiful. The sunflowers seemed to be smiling at us. I couldn’t take enough pictures as everywhere we walked we saw more and more beautiful sunflowers. Just amazing.

Toward the end of the field closest the store, there was a beautiful red tractor that looked picture perfect with the yellow sunflowers behind it. Loads of people were lining up to get there picture taken there and on a wagon they had all decorated up for fall. They offer a professional photographer to take pictures while you are there for $35. The store sold local honeys, T-shirts, sunflowers to put in vases and birdseed for $1 each. They also sell barbecue sandwiches. Wonderful.

This farm has 900,000 flowers on 30 plus acres. They offer mule drawn wagon rides or you can bring your own horse and pay only $10 a horse and be able to ride their many trails. They have miles and miles of trails for the horses and you to explore.

As we were heading back to our car, we noticed a couple of horse trailers with horses grazing in the field. Oh, they will have a nice day cruising around on the trails. They even have a pen set up to put the horses in while the owners can walk in the sunflower fields. One of the horses, looked up and saw us and broke free and came right towards us. I stepped on the lead when the horse got near us and stop her. She was a beauty. I think she was attracted to Joe. I loved on her for a few before bidding them farewell and left.

We highly recommend this place. You can get amazing pictures of God’s beauty. Thank you to the Fausett family for sharing this beautiful farm. Check them out at: https://fausettfarmssunflowers.com.