Family Business – Page 9

18 Sep 2020

Pumpkin season offers respite from your day to day.

Agritourism, Family Business, Maize Quest Corn Maze & Fun Park, Seasonal Business

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SDOHsXe2Vo CLICK TO WATCH Farmer Hugh try to push a GIANT pumpkin wagon as LIVE watchers try to guess the weight and see his flat tire from unloading the heavy bins of fresh picked pumpkins... Farm: Mon-Sat 8AM-5PM, Sun 1PM-5PM Maze: Sat 10AM-4PM, Sun 1-6PM, Pumpkins are here! Winery: Sat 12-5PM, Sun 1PM-5PM "The most wonderful time of the year" Andy got it wrong. Hello from the farm! Joy fills my heart as pumpkin season commences, and people start the search for their perfect pumpkin. Each pumpkin is so tuned to the individual. Warty pumpkins. Big pumpkins. Tiny baby pumpkins. White pumpkins. Gooseneck gourds.…

16 Sep 2020

“The most wonderful time of the year” Andy got it wrong.

Agritourism, Family Business, Maize Quest Corn Maze & Fun Park, Maple Lawn Farms, Seasonal Business

Farm: Mon-Sat 8AM-5PM, Sun 1PM-5PM Maze: Sat 10AM-4PM, Sun 1-6PM, Pumpkins are here! Winery: Sat 12-5PM, Sun 1PM-5PM "The most wonderful time of the year" Andy got it wrong. Hello from the farm! "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" was released by Andy Williams for Christmas of 1963. It is one of my favorite Christmas songs, yet I disagree entirely with Andy. In fact, I don't think Andy was a farmer. Right NOW is the "Most Wonderful Time of the Year" because it is harvest time. I think if Andy had visited Maple Lawn Farms and walked around, enjoying the loaded apple trees, the pumpkins bursting…

27 Aug 2020

Apple season holds hope.

Agritourism, Family Business, Maple Lawn Farms, Seasonal Business

We LOVE apples and YOU get to come pick them this weekend and every weekend throughout Fall Harvest! Apple Season brings a welcome change. Hello from the farm! If you are like me, you are ready for a change in the seasons. Fall is harvest season on the farm, and it has been, as they say, a long hot summer. Apple season arrives and brings with it hope in the harvest. Summer typically brings the joy of juicy peaches, but that was cut short by frost in late spring. Throughout the summer, it was heartbreaking to repeat over and over again…

10 Aug 2020

Timed-ticketing, Covid Signs, & Happy People – Sunflower Festival Report Part 1

Agritourism, Family Business, Maize Quest Corn Maze & Fun Park, Maple Lawn Farms, Seasonal Business

This is our TicketSpice.com System allowing 50 tickets per timeslot, counting down to SOLD OUT status. We've pushed TicketSpice for a special deal for all our Agritourism clients & friends. If you reach out to use them, remember to ask for the "Platinum Set-up" package and exclusive, "Agritourism Phone Support" package. You can ask me questions, too, my Sunflower Fest link is after the blog. Timed-ticketing, Covid Signs, & Happy People - Sunflower Festival Report. Sorry this is a hurried blog post, we're cranking to get everything ready in-between festival weekends. I'm sure you are running hard, too. I wanted to…

24 Jul 2020

You never stop growing up.

Agritourism, Family Business, Maize Quest Corn Maze & Fun Park, Seasonal Business

External heat leads to explosion. You never stop growing up. It was Tuesday the week before we hosted our first event of the season, and it just boiled over. Farmer Hugh's a pretty nice guy most of the time, but he remains completely imperfect. I boiled over. I sharpened my words and darkened my tone. I lit into the crew of teenagers who had worked all summer getting the fun park ready. I was venting frustration I didn't even know I had on a good group of kids. External pressures and circumstances. We are all under a new set of external forces during…

04 Jul 2020

Your freedom, my freedom, and our freedom.

Agritourism, Family Business, Maple Lawn Farms, Seasonal Business

Blueberries now! Wine? Every Saturday & Sunday from now on;-) Orchard & Market Hours: Blueberry Patch OPEN Mon-Sat 8AM-5PM, Sun 1PM-5PM The farm on July 4th - 8-5PM Winery Hours OPEN: Sat 12PM-5PM, Sun 1PM-5PM, Life on the Farm: "Your freedom, my freedom, and our freedom." "May you live in interesting times." 2020 has certainly been interesting... I'm not sure this is what the quote author meant, but this challenging time has been, and will be in the history books, a study of how we as a people responded to this crisis. This study will also be of how we managed and balanced your freedom,…

05 Jun 2020

Hugh “unboxes” REAL Sweet cherries that are coming from our friends. Read the full story.

Agritourism, Family Business, Maize Quest Corn Maze & Fun Park, Maple Lawn Farms, Seasonal Business

Reserve your sweet cherries by June 14th! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj2blfVnnas CLICK to watch the video -> See the reactions when Farmer Hugh and the kids try all the new pies, like all of them... Remember Kimmy's Cafe in Fawn Grove? They are now "Kimmy's BBQ Brought 2 U" and have joined as this festival's food purveyor! Pull Pork with an exclusive Cherry-Chipotle Sauce (on the side), Mild Italian Smoked Sausage, 3-Bean Baked Beans, Homemade Coleslaw and Honey Cornbread - all in a platter you can take home! You might want to come just for the food! Our FIRST Summer Drive-Thru Fesitval keeps…

29 May 2020

Part 3 – “Farmer Hugh gets burned at the stake.”

Agritourism, Family Business, Maple Lawn Farms, Seasonal Business

Farmer Hugh gets a rude awakening after the strawberry festival... Part 3 - "Farmer Hugh gets burned at the stake." In Part 1, we reviewed that I love to help people use data to overcome emotional distress caused by social media pain. If you missed Part 1, If you missed Part 1 & Part 2 - "Solving the strawberry supply problem." Here's the basic idea: Reviewing the data, the real numbers, is like a vaccine against future social media harassments. Once you know to look at the data, you can temper your emotional response. Then it happened to me. Part 3 -…

27 May 2020

Part 2 – “Solving the strawberry supply problem.”

Agritourism, Family Business, Maple Lawn Farms, Seasonal Business

Hundreds of Strawberry Drive-Thru Festival bakery & winery orders await pick-up Part 2 - "Solving the strawberry supply problem." In Part 1, we reviewed that I love to help people use data to overcome emotional distress caused by social media pain. If you missed Part 1, Here's the basic idea: Reviewing the data, the real numbers, is like a vaccine against future social media harassments. Once you know to look at the data, you can temper your emotional response. Then it happened to me. Part 2 - "Solving the strawberry supply problem." The current situation: Seven days from our festival, we're…

25 May 2020

Part 3 – “Farmer Hugh gets burned at the stake.”

Agritourism, Family Business, Seasonal Business

In Part 1, we reviewed that I love to help people use data to overcome emotional distress caused by social media pain. If you missed Part 1, please read it FIRST on my blog: CLICK HERE If you missed Part 1 & Part 2 - "Solving the strawberry supply problem." READ Part 2 NEXT on my blog -> CLICK HERE Here's the basic idea: Reviewing the data, the real numbers, is like a vaccine against future social media harassments. Once you know to look at the data, you can temper your emotional response. Then it happened to me. Part 3 - "Farmer Hugh gets…