Manitoba farmer offers the perfect spot for your sunflower selfies

While othersmight object to trespassers who stop to takepictures with their crops, one Manitoba farmer is asking people to drop by and snap a selfie with his beautiful sunflowers in exchange for a donation to an organization working to end global hunger.

Dean Toews farms corn and soybeans east ofthe town of MacGregor, but this year he planted a field of the massive flowers just for people searching for the perfect Instagram picture.

All he asks is that people make a donation to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.

"We have a set of clippers there if you want to take a [sunflower]head home with you or two ... and we have a donation box there, and the money goes 100 per cent to Canadian Foodgrains Bank," Toews said in a Thursday interview withCBC Manitoba's Radio Noon.

The Foodgrains Bank is a coalition of charities that work to help developing countriesmeet emergency food needs and work toward long-term solutions to hunger.

"People are giving and it's producing a harvest that is continuing to grow in other countries with Canadian FoodgrainsBank, so it's very, very positive," Toewssaid.

There's something special about a field of sunflowers that fills the hearts of people who come by to visit, the farmer says.

"It's a nice big, bright yellow, yellow plant, and I don't think you can help but smile when you're in a sunflower field. So it's definitely a positive place to be. And that's what people need," he said.

But it won't be there for long, due to the dry summer.

"The sunflowers have deep roots. They're able to search for water that way, but when it's so hot outside, the flowering part of the season is much shorter," Toews said.

"I'm expecting by the following weekend there's going to be much less sunflowers available."

If you want to go snap a selfie before the flowers are gone, look for the Co-op Gas Bar in the town of MacGregor about 120 kilometres west of Winnipeg via the Trans-Canada Highway. Thefarm is a kilometre east on the service road.