Corn Mazes

Angie Treinen spends months collecting ideas and sketching out designs, and then once she settles on a theme she can begin the graphic design process. In early June, Alan Treinen plants the corn in a grid pattern, and then he leads a crew to cut the design into the field by hand. It’s all done before the corn is about a foot tall.

It’s not all about wandering: we give you a mission when you start the maze, and then add levels of challenge. Depending on your group’s abilities and desires, the main maze experience can be anywhere from 45 minutes to several hours. And did we mention that there are prizes?

When we started thinking about designing the corn maze, a lot of people said “hey, what about a coronavirus?” Which we’re sure would have made a delightfully complicated maze, but we figured we’ve got coronavirus on our minds all the time–maybe an afternoon at the Treinen Farm could be a virus-free zone (literally as well as figuratively, we hope.) However, we couldn’t quite resist the temptation to add the crow for our small maze. Crows and ravens are corvids (in the family Corvidae) and they’re super-smart, interesting birds. So, we’ll take a corvid over a covid any day…