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

10 Ways to Celebrate Fall in Central Alberta

Thanksgiving Weekend at Kraay Family Farm

10 Ways to Celebrate Fall in Central Alberta It’s definitely, officially Fall in Central Alberta—the morning air is as crisp as the corn stalks, the geese are honking their way South, and we’re wondering how best we can enjoy these last weeks of the season. As Anne of Green Gables says, “I’m so glad I live in a world where … Read More

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

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

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