My Organic Market’s ER

Yesterday, as you all might have noticed if you live in the DC area, was a brillant, sun filled day. I don’t know if it was that it had rained all day Saturday or planets were in alignment or I got too few hours of sleep, but everything looked fresh and crisp. The edges of cars, sidewalks, trees and even blades of grass glistened and shined.

Seeing this as I walked down the sidewalk to get a scone from the corner bakery, I decided that today was the day to visit a pumpkin patch and corn maze. I jumped on the web to check to see which would be my best and closest option. Key elements for me were local farms, short distance, fall activities and organic. What I came up with was a farm in Virginia called the Corn Maze in the Plains. Its about thirty miles from DC that not only was local, but also prided itself on the organic corn maze and activities for children. Sounds like just my cup of tea!

I grabbed a few of my roommates to come along and we set voyage for what promised to be a spectacular maze, filled with lots of turns and dead ends. The view from above showed the maze was cut in the shape of some bats flitting around the moon… that’s some talented corn mowing right there. I am not sure if you have ever been in a corn maze, but you basically wander through a bunch of trails and stare at a view like this for about 40 minutes while trying to track down your friends and giggling with surprised little kids along the way. And let me tell you - it is FUN, especially when you know that you aren’t walking through fields filled with pesticides and synthetic fertilizers!

So, if enjoying the fall harvest organically with local growers sounds good to you, make sure to look up the Corn Maze at the Plains. They boast the first organically grown corn maze in the country, and clearly one of the best.

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