Fresh Acres
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In September, Fresh Acres LLC will open their fall festival located at 8102 72nd ST NE, Monticello MN, which is 30 minutes from both Minneapolis & St Cloud. The festival will be open weekends through October, and will also be open Thursday and Friday of MEA break. Hours vary and fluctuate based on Monther Nature. Call or check our Facebook site for updates. The base ticket price for admission is $12 per person ages 4-69, and can be purchased at the gate.
This year’s festival and maze design commemorate the 50th anniversary of the book Charlottes Web. There are two mazes within the design. One is a smaller maze, specially designed for kids under 8 years old. While walking through the maze, kids are able to play a game to identify animal tracks and learn about farm animals.
The second maze is a larger maze that includes roughly 2.3 miles of paths. In this maze, kids of all ages are able to search for clues to determine who kidnapped Farmer Joe.
Included in the price of admission are additional activities including a corn pit, inflatables, bale mountain, a petting zoo, yard games, and more.
Owners, Dana and Zeke Berg, purchased the farm 7 years ago because it had many of the things needed to achieve their goals of finding ways to raise pastured, grass fed, animals and non-GMO, natural produce. The farm also has several acres of tillable land, and when contemplating what to do with it, they determined hosting a fall festival would help other families connect with each other and the agriculture existing around them. In keeping with their values, the corn maze, activity area, and onsite pumpkin patch are planted with non-GMO seed and are not sprayed with chemicals, making it unique among other corn mazes in the Twin Cities area.