Yesterday we went to Blowing Springs Farm, a farm that is open Fridays and weekends starting in late September through the month of October.
The farm is located just over the border of Georgia, which added another element of excitement for me. Now I can say that I’ve been to a new state. Everyone does it differently, but I do not count driving through!
The farm is mainly for families with young kids, but that has never stopped us before! However, we did see some groups with just older people too.
The main focus (and also the gift shop) of the farm is the See Rock City red barn, painted to look like a bird house. All though we have not seen any yet, there are advertisement barns all over the southeast on the sides of highways that have “See Rock City” painted on them. This particular barn is the only one you can actually see at Rock City, an attraction on top of Lookout Mountain. It will be fun to go to Rock City, hopefully sometime soon, and be able to look down and see the red barn below.
Admission is $10 per person and it includes four activity tokens. Each activity is one token. You can buy extra tokens if you want to. We picked out three activities (the ones that are more for us old folks.)
We did the corn maze, the hay ride and the critter coral.
The corn maze was bigger than I expected. At first I was disappointed because the corn stalks at the front were small and we towered over them, but once you got in the middle and towards the back, we were quite lost! They did a good job of making a lot of dead ends and turn arounds.
The critter corral had all kinds of smaller animals to pet. There were alpacas, miniature horses, donkeys, rabbits, pigs and cows. The cows had a lot of fluffy hair; they were my favorite.
The hay ride was small and short, but still nice. It entered through a back portion of the corn maze.
We also bought a pumpkin to take home at the pumpkin market. This cost extra so it did not use up tokens. I will use my leftover tokens for scrapbooking.
Some of the kid activities included a cow train, a corn sling shot, rubber duck races, and go cart races.
We had a great morning and I recommend it for anyone who’s looking to have a good fall themed outing.
