Early Fall Fun

Because I absolutely couldn't even think about another afternoon of yard work AND because it was 78 degrees and perfect out AND because last year we didn't get a chance to pick pumpkins due to the move, I decided to take the family to Hurricane Hill Farm for some old-fashioned fall farm fun.  I met with some resistance when I announced the day's plan, but since "Mom always knows best" (and that is absolutely true, by the way) I persevered and we all had a great time.

Hurricane Hill Farm is a Pennsylvania Century Farm located in Coatesville, PA.  (A Century Farm is a farm that meets several specific criteria, including that it has been farmed by the same family for 100 years.)  In order to make a little extra revenue in the fall, it hosts an enormous 5-acre corn maze, a corn slide, a corn cannon, pedal tractors, a cow train, a hayride, and the most sincere pumpkin patch you could ever find. It has it all -- so for one low admission price we corned it up all afternoon.  The corn maze, in particular, is awesome.  Their website has an aereal view of the design, and it really makes me wonder how they create it.  And, to entice even more to enter the maze, the maze has a series of plaques and rubbings to read/do along the way, all following this year's Space theme.  Very cool!  It is so massive we didn't even try to find all the rubbings in the maze.

Since we were so early in the this season (ok, technically it is still summer), none of the activities had lines, AND we even scored a private family hayride to the pumpkin patch!

Ben: "Hey, Mom, there's corn in here."
Mom:  "Yes, it really is a corn maze."

The Corn Cannon

 

Deep in the Corn Maze