How to keep your Pumpkins happy from now until Halloween!

It’s PUMPKIN season! This is our favourite time of year here on the farm for many reasons but pumpkins in all their pumpkin-ness is certainly close to the top! Why do you pick them so early? In this part of Alberta we need to plant our pumpkins as early as we can in order to get a long enough growing … Read More

Outdoor Movie Night at the Farm

Save the date! The outdoor movie night will be September 23, 2016! ONE of the TWO movie showing will be…you guessed it…”It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!”  Tickets will be $6. Bring your lawnchairs and dress for the weather! More details to come shortly.

Here Comes the Sun! 

The sunflowers are out! And so is the sun! Each year we plant a number of different plants around the farm.we plant sunflowers around the maze- just for the fun and beauty of it! We also plant pumpkins around the outer edge of the maze for blasting in the Pumpkin Blaster and for selling in the Fall for baking and … Read More

2016 August Long Weekend.

I know you’re wondering how tall the corn is. I know because you’re calling me and asking. It’s still hard for me to remember every year just how fast and how high the corn can grow by this time of the season. So, cast your fears of tiny corn aside for the corn is looking a-MAZE-ing!! Most of it around … Read More

3 Little Piggies

We brought home 3 new little piggies this week! Crosses between a Berkshire and a Tamworth, these three are SO cute! We named them Sweet Bernadette, Darling Lorraine and are still trying to come up with a good name for the third pig. Any ideas? She’s the smaller of the three and just loves to tag along closely with her sisters. … Read More

Maze Reveal

In the NEWS… GOOD GRIEF! IT’S THE GREAT MAZE, CHARLIE BROWN! PEANUTS WORLDWIDE, THE MAiZE, INC., AND the Kraay Family Farm CELEBRATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF “IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN!” WITH CUSTOM-DESIGNED PEANUTS-THEMED MAZE In honor of the 50th Anniversary of one of the most beloved, quotable, and unforgettable Peanuts television specials of all time, It’s the Great … Read More

Sneak Peak!

Kraay Family Farm Peanuts Corn Maze

Hello everyone!  It’s feeling like Spring here on the farm!  I think that means it is time to start talking about what’s happening around here.Very soon, on June 15th, we are going to make our big announcement about our theme for the maze this year! We’re very excited! For a sneak preview we’ve created this video to help you guess and … Read More

Pumpkins for Thanksgiving and Halloween!

  If you’re looking for pumpkins for decorating your Thanksgiving table, making into pumpkin pie, or carving up for Halloween, look no further! We’ve got tennis ball size all the way up to beach ball size! And some are filled with bumps and lumps for your scary pumpkin carving! We do grow our own pumpkins but as soon as the … Read More