TigardTimes:

“A popular figure at the Tigard Area Farmers’ Market (Oregon) this summer has been Katy Douglas, 11, who sells sunflowers that she raises herself.  The sixth-grader in Southwest Portland and has been helping out her parents, Cathy and Ken, in their booth for the past three years.

The family, which owns 7½ acres and plants a garden on three-quarters of an acre, operates the PM Farms booth, selling such items as green beans, wax beans, cucumbers, lemon cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, beets, onions, Patty Pan squash, Golden Jubilee corn, blackberries and more.

“I bring four full buckets of sunflowers to the market and 10 bunches,” Katy said. “I cut them myself and bring all I can.”

“Lots of times, she’ll sell out by noon,” Cathy said.

Katy also gives some flowers away.

“I sometimes hand out little flowers to the 3- and 4-year-olds,” she said. “They go away smiling. Every year a girl comes in a wagon, and I give one to her.”