Sunday 10/27 OPEN 9am to 6pm. Saturday rain settled the dust, and a cold front is rolling in, so it should be a beautiful cool fall day. This is one of the last few days you will be able to enjoy our apple cider donuts for the season, as we wrap up our fall season next weekend. Don't miss out!
Saturday 10/26 Open 9am-10pm. This is the last weekend before Halloween and we still have pumpkins available. Hall's Kitchen and Bakery and the Coffee Cottage are fully stocked. Come get a pack of apple cider donuts and wash it down with a hot or iced pumpkin pie latte made from Enderly Coffee Company coffee beans.
Please be aware that yellowjacket bees will be all over any and all sweet things today. No matter how often we are verbally berated and threatened with bad online reviews, there is absolutely nothing effective we can do about them. If you are highly allergic to bee stings or can't tolerate their presence, I recommend not visiting the farm Saturday. The cooler weather Sunday may help reduce their presence.
Wednesday 10/23 Open 12pm to 6pm. We still have plenty of pumpkins available, and all of our food and activities will be running. Don't miss your chance to try one of our many fall treats before we close November 3rd!
Our Kidwalk and Goatwalk customers truly run the gamut from young to young-at-heart. Here is Bob, 86 years young, kicking butt and taking names. He did every element including the rolling log, and did most "no hands".
Friday 10/18 open 12pm to 10pm. General admission to the farm is free so you don't have to stand in the line at the entrance. Walk around and see what we have to offer, scan the QR codes posted to learn about the ticketed activities, then get in a line. To simplify ticket buying, we are adding the "All Day Wristband" for $18 plus tax. It gives you unlimited access for the day of purchase to the hayride, Kidzone (max 56 inch height still applies), small and large corn mazes. It DOES NOT include the Kidwalk or Goatwalk. No refunds or partial refunds will be given. Individual activity tickets are still available. All tickets and wristbands except Kidwalk and Goatwalk can be purchased at any register. Kidwalk and Goatwalk tickets are available only at the small white tent by the Goatwalk.
Sunday 9/22 Open 9am to 6pm. Come cool off in our new Coffee Cottage with some iced spiced apple cider, sweet tea, iced coffee, and more. We use locally roasted beans by Enderly Coffee Company for our drip coffee and espresso drinks, and it's absolutely delicious! We have some great seasonal drinks right now, including our hot or iced spiced apple cider, pumpkin pie latte, peppermint mocha
(pictured in the video), and salted maple latte. Pairs great with an apple cider donut! ☕️🍩
Please enjoy this video we put together to reveal our 2024 corn maze theme! 🤗🌽
This year's maze is Dungeons & Dragons themed, and it will feature escape room-style challenges and puzzles hidden throughout the maze. Phones are required to play the game! We open September 20th, so come out and try your hand at defeating our maze and getting a spot on the leader board 😉
Today we laid almost 4 acres of plastic beds for our 2025 strawberry season. We used our overhead sprinklers to wet the soil holding the beds down so that the plastic doesn't lift in the wind. Here Kevin races against the sprinklers to turn them off, risking a full face of pond water in the process.
Our official opening date for the fall season is September 20th! The pumpkin plants and corn maze are planted and looking good. We'll announce this year's corn maze theme very soon. In the meantime, enjoy this video of a bumble bee gathering pollen from a native maypop flower growing on our chicken fence. The fruit from this plant is a type of passion fruit and is edible!
Where did the rain go? We have been struggling to prepare the ground for our 8-acre corn maze (this fall) and 4-acre strawberry patch (spring 2025). After 2 decent rains and some pond water irrigation, we successfully planted the corn maze, planted pumpkins on the old strawberry field, and are on track to have the new strawberry field ready for bed making this month or next. In the video, I am smoothing out the corn maze with a makeshift drag harrow, a 700-lb, 20-ft long steel ibeam.
Found some volunteer lespedeza forage growing and the goats are happy. This farm was last used as a cattle ranch into the 1980s and lespedeza was probably planted for the cattle.
Thursday 5/16 Open 9am to 6pm. The field is wet, but there are lots of great strawberries mixed in with water damaged berries. See the first picture in the comments for very good berries. If strawberries aren't for you, we have fresh kale and multiple types of lettuce for sale. We picked some kale today and turned it into our dinner, farm to table style. We used Pinch of Yum's Sausage, Kale, and White Bean Soup recipe (https://pinchofyum.com/sausage-kale-and-white-bean-soup). We made it vegetarian by using vegetable broth and Beyond Beef Hot Italian Sausage. Very very delicious!
Wednesday April 24 open 9am to 6pm. Upick is good, but there are a lot of water damaged berries too. It will help us if you can pick off those bad berries and drop them in the walk aisles. We are busy Wednesday and Thursday mornings with big field trips; the Goat Walk and Kid Zone will open at 12 pm.
