It's time for fall fun on the farm and several local farms and nurseries have constructed mazes, hay forts, hay slides, and the like for the enjoyment of kids of all ages. Bauman Farms , just south of Woodburn on Howell Prairie Road, boasts a hay slide, a hay fort, a huge indoor hay maze, a corn maze, and a petting zoo. Bauman Farms also offers hay rides on the weekends, apple cider demonstrations, and more. Bauman Farms boast a hay maze made from 1,200 bales of straw that fills two greenhouses.
Kids do better than grown-ups, according to hay maze authorities.
Owner Rick Bauman estimates that 1,000 people a day go through that hay maze on the weekends. This doesn't count the more than 4,500 kids registered to visit the farm in October as members of school groups. Weekend visitors, not part of the school tours, can enjoy the same things but must pay for their pumpkins, gourds, and Indian corn. Bauman Farms, like the other farms featured, is an operating farm. The farm produce and nursery shop offers over 30 varieties of apples, nine varieties of squash, pumpkins, gourd's, Indian corn, scarecrows, fall flowers and much more.