The Treinens
About Us
We Grow Memories
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W12420 WI Trunk 60
Lodi, WI 53555
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Angie, Alan, and Hector
Fall is our favorite time of year
We’ve been here for four generations
The home of the Treinen Farm Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch is a real 200-acre farm in Lodi, Wisconsin. It has been in the Treinen family for over a century. Alan is the eighth of ten children, and the third generation of Treinens to farm this land. Patrick and Thomas are the fourth generation.
We are a working agricultural operation where farming, agritourism, and care for the land all belong to the same identity. The pumpkins grew in actual dirt. The barn was built in the 1850s. The animals are actual animals. The people who greet you are genuinely glad you’re here.
In a world where more and more of life happens on a screen, we think there’s something irreplaceable about a place where the ground is real ground, the sky is real sky, and the experience you’re having can only happen because you showed up — in person, on the land, in the weather, with other people.
The Treinens
The Family
Alan grows hay, soybeans, corn, and pumpkins. He cuts and tends the corn mazes. He breeds and trains the iconic Treinen Farm Belgian and Percheron draft horses. He maintains the farm and its equipment. He designs, builds, and maintains the attractions that go along with the maze. He’s a busy guy all year round.
Angie (Lathrop) Treinen is the corn maze designer, creator of fall fun, and master visionary for the farm. She gets everyone moving in the same direction and orchestrates the various areas of the business. As a veterinarian, she also looks after all creatures great and small at the farm.
Patrick builds and maintains many of the attractions, leads the summer work crews and food area, and is a jack of all trades and master troubleshooter in the fall season. He is growing into a leadership role as the farm prepares for its next chapter.
Thomas brings his careful, detail-oriented nature to farm operations and to the family. He is part of what makes this place feel like home.
Patrick, Angie, Alan, and Thomas Treinen
Schrödinger’s Cat: the year Angie decided we all needed a little more quantum physics in our lives
Every Year is Different
Reading the Moment
Every year, when Angie sits down to design the corn maze, she asks a question that has nothing to do with marketing: What do people need from us right now?
In 2020, during the pandemic, the answer was resilience — and the maze became a tardigrade, the most resilient animal on the planet. In 2021, the answer was intellectual wonder — and the maze became Schrödinger’s Cat, filled with physics thought experiments. In 2023, the answer was uncomplicated love — and the maze became “To All the Good Dogs.”
Other years have honored the Wisconsin trilobite (the state fossil) in partnership with the UW Geology Museum, the dancing sandhill cranes of the Wisconsin Crane Foundation, the mammoth of the Ice Age Trail, and the badger of Wisconsin itself. Twenty-five years of mazes. Twenty-five different answers to the same question.
The maze is hand-designed in the studio over many weeks, then hand-cut by Alan and his crew when the corn is still under a foot tall. There is no GPS — just smart kids with a grid, walking through young corn on the hottest days of June.
Beyond the Maze
The Land Matters Here
The conservation work at Treinen Farm — prairie restoration, oak savanna rehabilitation, woodland management — is not a side project. It is part of what this place is. Guests may come for the maze, but they are visiting a farm where the land matters beyond its commercial use, where pollinators and native plants and old oak trees are part of the same story as the pumpkins and the corn.
The bur oaks at the top of the Treinen Farm bluff have been here for (literally) centuries
A lot of people ask how we decided to put in the corn maze, which we did in 2001. We already had a small pumpkin patch business, and a lot of people brought their kids year after year when they were little, but often they’d stop coming when the kids got older. When we added the corn maze and other activities, we created a fall tradition for a much wider range of ages. Now, a lot of people of make us their “fall thing” and do come back year after year, whether it’s with family or friends or workplaces.
That’s still what we want to be: the place that becomes part of someone’s fall, every year, for as long as they want us to be.