Sunday, October 11, 2009

Scarecrow Festival

This is our fourth year with the maze and second year with a pumpkin festival, however, it is only the first year we have found time to enter a scarcrow into the Innisfail Scarecrow Festival. Fortunately one of the Mexican men working for me this fall has experience making unique creatures out of corn. I have a picture on my face book of a large cat he made a couple weeks ago.

So I asked him to make a Scarecrow man and a little dog. Sure enough he did some amazing work and our scarecrow one first place in two categories. 1st in the Visiting Category and 1st the Most Creative Category, which we are very proud of.

Epiphanio is the main artist, although Roberto and I put some work into the display as well.

Epiphanio is the man up on the truck and Roberto is holding the Scarecrow

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Pumpkin Festival

Summer has passed us by and we are now in Pumpkin Mode on the farm. This will be a second season hosting a Pumpkin Festival on the farm which is themed around the Halloween season.

Surprisingly the Sunflower & Corn Mazes are quite resilient and remain open and navigable until the end of October. The sunflowers have finished their bloom and their seed have matured. You are more than welcome to nibble at the seeds when traveling the mazes.

One very unique aspect to our festival is the large potato storage shed we convert into three indoor event rooms. Our farm store which is open all summer long. A kids Craft and Face Painting Room. Then last is our Pumpkin and lunch room. So even if the weather is undesirable, come inside and enjoy a warm break from the mazes.

Of course it is a Pumpkin Festival and what would a pumpkin festival be without Pumpkins, Pumpkins & more Pumpkins? Not too worry our pumpkin crop this year was absolutely fantastic and we harvested nearly 1000 ranging from small 3lb pumpkins to a record size for us at 45lbs
The Pumpkin Festival will be running Every Saturday & Sunday from 11am - 5pm in October. We will be closed if it is a snow storm, so if in doubt please phone before hitting the road. 403 224-3995 or toll free 1877 224-3939.