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. After 4 weeks of voting, the contest closes on the […]

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 Story, The Elephant’s Child. It is about […]

Before we started to plan the 2017 corn maze, we were contacted by the UW-Madison Geology Museum folks, RIch Slaughter and Brooke Norsted. They suggested doing a trilobite corn maze–and they were pretty persuasive. We talked a lot about making a trilobite the main image in the maze, and having a sort of geology-ish theme, and then having a lot of fun education and engagement opportunities. I was basically sold when they showed me their trilobite temporary tattoos. So, we were committed to doing a trilobite very early on in the design process.

What kind of business would want to hire more than twenty 14- to 16-year-olds all at once, with no job experience, and continue to do this EVERY year?

The Treinen Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch here in Lodi does just that. I have worked at Treinen’s for more than five years (and I am well over 16 years old!!!).

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.

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

Number one question at the Treinen Farm this year is “Why are the unicorns killers?” Let’s go back to how we think up a maze design. I (Angie) am the designer, so basically I get to do whatever I want. But I am willing to accept some input in the idea phase. Alan (my husband, the […]

One of the best parts about raising kids on a farm is the sheer number of things for them to do. Just walking outside with little ones and letting them climb around on hay bales or sit on a tractor is endlessly fascinating. And with acres of woods, the Treinen children developed into obsessive rock and […]

So, what’s new this year? That’s a question be get all year ’round–so what will be new, fun, interesting, strange, unique at the 2015 Treinen Farm Fall Festival? Of course we have a new maze design–The Fox and the Grapes-– but what else will be amazing? Do you really want me to tell you? Or […]

Check out the USA Today 10Best website to see our maze! It’s so awesome to be featured on the site, and it’s also great to see the mazes that farms around country have designed this year. We’ve met many corn maze operators from all over when we’ve gone to various corn maze conventions in the […]

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