About 5 minutes from our boys' school in Milford, Ohio, there is the coolest little farm called Shaw Farms. Shaw Farms has been in the Shaw family since 1805, and they grow a whole hodgepodge of crops like soybeans, corn, and pumpkins; however, every fall, they also open their farm up to children for about a month to explore. Granted, they sell some canned foods and goodies from their farm; but they don't charge any admission for the kids to come and visit, and they make sure that every child gets to take home their very own little pumpkin. Yesterday they opened, and here were some of the pictures from our visit...
One of the coolest things the Shaws do is turn some of their pumpkins and gourds into characters all over the farm, such as Dorothy and the Good Witch (above), and the Tin Man (below)...
The Big Bad Wolf...
Tim joked that putting this S.W.A.T. pumpkin infront of the 3 little pigs' brick house made it look like a crack house (ha-ha)! He started singing "Bad gourds, bad gourds, what'cha gonna do when they come for you?"
Anna explored the Flintones' house, with Wilma Flintstone standing outside.
She even got to sit in the Flintstone-mobile. The resemblance to the cartoon car was uncanny!
Cinderella and Price Charming
I think Tim and John and Anna Jean were looking for the Great Pumpkin!
Our family had the opportunity to do our very first corn maze at Shaw Farm! I must admit that with the temps pushing 90 degrees, it didn't feel very autumnal. Nonetheless, we had a great time for about an hour meandering through the corn. We only made it halfway through the maze, though: that was one big corn maze!
I would call the following picture "Children of the Corn," but I think that was a movie...
Christopher took comfort that if we got lost and never found our way out of the corn maze, at least we wouldn't starve!
