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Treinen Farm Voted One of the Top Ten Corn Mazes in the U.S.
Thank you to all of our guests and fans who voted for us in the USA Today 10Best Corn Maze Contest! We are honored to be recognized as one of the best corn mazes in the U.S. See all the winners here -- USA Today 10Best Contest : Corn Maze
Growing Pumpkins
Pumpkins can be a finicky crop, but this year they are loving the heat and adequate rainfall. We'll have some really massive ones, as well as all kinds of colors, sizes and shapes. They will be ready to pick by the time we open in September. If you protect them from...
Martha Stewart Living article featuring our farm!
Back in June, we were contacted by Martha Stewart Living about an article on corn mazes for their October 2019 issue. We are pretty excited about the result--we love the magazine! Martha Stewart Living famous -- that's pretty famous, right? And here's the online...
Interview with Angie Treinen on Wisconsin Public Radio
Wisconsin Weekend: Designing And Operating Corn Mazes Curious about Wisconsin corn mazes? Wondering about the Treinen design process? Listen to Angie's interview on WPR's Morning Show: https://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-weekend-designing-and-operating-corn-mazes
Have Fun this Fall with the International Crane Foundation
This year, we are partnering with The International Crane Foundation, located in Baraboo, Wisconsin, which works worldwide to conserve cranes and the ecosystems, watershed and flyways on which they depend. The International Crane foundation staff and volunteers will...
The Value of Doing Real Things in our Digitally-Focused World — Our Field Trip Philosophy
In our educational world of one-to-one devices, educational apps, interactive internet-connected boards, and the firehose of information we are trying to teach our kids to navigate, more and more teachers are looking to balance the digital experience with authentic,...
Treinen Farm voted one of the ten best corn mazes in the U.S.
Big News! Treinen Farm selected as one of the ten best corn mazes in the U.S. in the USA Today's Reader's Choice Award. From USA Today: The 10Best Readers' Choice Award contest launches new categories every other Monday at noon, revealing each category's 20 nominees....
The 2018 Maze is the Rudyard Kipling Story “The Elephant’s Child”
Every year we need to come up with an amazing maze theme--which is a lot of pressure! We need a design that is interesting, recognizable, complex, and gives us a story to tell or at least easy conversation starters. This year, the maze is the Rudyard Kipling Just-So...
The New Thing for 2016 — The Circle Maze
Last year, when the truly dedicated maze nerds came out of the grapes (as in, the first part of the Fox and the Grapes maze) we heard lots of raving about how hard and awesome they were. We started saying “maybe we’ll make a maze that’s just all kinds of circles.” Well, guess what–we did, and here’s how you do it.
Our maze featured on the Smithsonian’s website
Check out the article featuring our maze on the website Smithsonian.com — I’m super proud of this mention on the Smithsonian site, as the Smithsonian Institute is one of my favorite things. This is an article written by Andrew Amelinckx, originally published at Modern Farmer