Farmer creates 'Hope' message using sunflower field to raise money for charity

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Fife, with the word 'Hope' cut into a huge field of striking yellow sunflowers. The ambitious project was inspired by Church of Scotland minister Douglas Creighton with Claire, 30 - who runs the farm with her mother Fiona and older sisters - aiming to "give people a sense of hope for the future".She said: "This field near our farm shop is around 1.5 hectares, the size of nearly four football fields, and hundreds of thousands of sunflowers have been planted."It did not take that long because we use a method of direct drilling whereby we do not plough and the seeds are sowed directly into last year's stubble."People really like sunflowers and for the last five to six years we have been planting strips of them to spread some joy around the.