Corn Maze Each year SonHarvest Seasons plans and cuts a special design into the corn maze. The first year two teenage boys, Zak and Luke Wiebe, cut the corn maze into the shape of a pirate ship. Amazingly, they did it with a machete. The maze that year was six acres. In following years, the Peils used walkie-talkies and stood on top of their large truck and later, the top of their house to direct Brian in the field as he cut the design into the maze. Today, all the family members and many friends ponder each year’s design until one idea is accepted. Usually Kim draws the design on paper and figures the maze. It must be challenging but not difficult. Brian then cuts the design into the corn when it is about six inches tall. It is always a joy when the design is cut in and the first customers experience the fun. In previous years the design of the maze has been a pirate’s ship, a spider, a jack-o-lantern, a tractor, and many other awesome designs. This year the design is a scare crow; a 15 acre scare crow. Some years the design is perfect, other years the design is altered slightly due to natural wet areas in the field. Sometimes after going in circles for hours, mistakes are made but only the people who fly over in power gliders or small aircraft know about it!! How The Corn Maze Works We have 2 different mazes, one for your little guys who might not enjoy the idea of being lost in a huge maze but still want the experience, and a bigger more difficult maze for you and your bigger kids! The small maze is for pre-school groups or classes( please see field trips/groups for group rates) that has simple winding paths with few intersections, and an accompanying adult can easily see out should the group feel lost! Our Big maze is hard even for those who have a good sense of direction, so if you are the type who can get lost in Shoshoni, beware! This maze is a mess of winding paths and intersections of various shapes and numbers. Your choices are endless. Each path has been designed to give you the feeling you have been there before and maybe you have!! Please read our special requests to learn more about the rules and limitations of our corn maze. Please consider the work involved in making the maze and others who wish to use the maze as it was intended. Please stay on the cut paths and do not cut through the corn field. The supervision of children is the responsibility of the school, group, or responsible adult. Pumpkins How to Pick the Perfect Pumpkin in 7 Easy Steps. 1. Come to the Pumpkin Patch-look for signs. 2. Select the perfect wheelbarrow or wagon, or stretch out your pumpkin hauling muscles!! 3. Wander about the fields with no real destination in mind except perhaps the one or two areas that would be the most difficult to pull your wagon through, filling said wagon with every cute, odd, funky, or even perfect pumpkin you see along the way. 4. Should you in your pumpkin patch travels come across an uncut stem on the pumpkin of your dreams, we strongly encourage the use of garden clippers, sheers, scissors, pocket knives, sharp rocks, fingernails, teeth and any other form of cutting tool, be it primitive or modern, to cut the stem from the vine at whatever point you deem best. We do not charge extra if you wish to take some vines with you, so get after it. 5. When your wheelbarrow, wagon, Mom or Dad is fully loaded and/or beginning to complain, return to your vehicle or the main tent area and deposit your treasures. Sort carefully through your selections to be sure you didn't miss your favorite one somewhere in the field, then smile at the awesomeness of your amazing pumpkin picking abilities and momentarily wonder if you should quit your day job and take on pumpkin picking as your life’s ambition. 6. After you return to reality, flag down one of the Pumpkin Patch staff members, someone wearing a whitish money belt that looks suspiciously like a tool belt from the local hardware store, who is walking about looking quite useful, and ask them to sum up your heap and ask about our CORN MAZE. (Our expert sales clerks deal primarily in cash or checks but currently accept all currencies falling under the title of the US dollar!) 7. Load your prize into your car and head for home where you can show up your whole neighborhood with the quality pumpkins you stack at your front door. Remember, if you are pooped out or unable to haul those pumpkins another step, or the pumpkin is bigger than you, please be sure to ask for assistance!!