THE A-MAZE-ING MAZE

HOORAY! Our friend Sandra,architect,engineer,and designer extraordinaire,created a tree-men-dous Pennsylvania Dutch style sampler 4 acre apple tree maze. She designed the trails in the shape of a huge trunk with the typical craggy apple tree branches,leaves, and even birds perching or nesting on the branches.She included the Hurd's signature checkpoint stations...this year in the shapes of empire apples. Let the 10 stations SURPRISE you with the MANY benefits of an apple farm to the local community and beyond. Phil and Susan Hurd agree the design this year is totally awesome,and it's great theme to celebrate our 10th year creating mazes.

Phil was the mastermind of this year's maze and he reports the corn is popping up all over,with a couple areas he'll be patching up. The major work on the maze trails is complete. The pattern was carefully transferred from Sandra's artwork on graph paper onto a HUGE grid(large squares) and plotted out in the 4 acre field.
The Scouts can arrive now this fall and work towards their Orienteering Badge using compass skills and following the predetermined path through the 10 ft. high field corn.

Just a thought,Scout groups,who are community minded,may want to come late August when we open for a Raspberry Festival,we are planning a fundraiser for the Hudson Valley Food Bank. As a farm we feel strongly,that NO ONE in the Hudson Valley, in our country,and the world for that matter,should go without food.

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED

The growing season is 3 weeks ahead of schedule in 2010.
Raspberries have been hand weeded.
Cherries are already ripening.
Indian corn is up.
Apple babies are green and about 1" in diameter.
Charles and his crew worked hard to get all the pumpkins and winter squash in the ground before the rain. Phil is happy to report the sunflower maze Charles designed is in the ground and growing.