Edith K.
Yelp
This place is more of an open dirt lot with dirty crowded pens of animals, and a few activities for kids scattered amongst a lot of broken down farm vehicles and other random junk. We came for baby animal days and were appalled to find listless and lethargic animals with liquid green diarrhea and feces-covered and matted coats in the petting farm, baby chicks and ducks in open topped containers in obvious distress as crowds of children picked them up and dropped them over and over, and no obvious larger areas where the animals have any space or privacy. Calves are locked into cracked plastic containers, and the grown cows are in a metal enclosure completely covered in a soup of watery mud and manure. Rabbits live in wire bottomed cages surrounded by debris.
The rest of the place looks half abandoned even though there was a decent sized crowd there. Half strings of Christmas decorations dangle into the mud, coils of lights, wire, and metal are scattered around, piles of junk litter the edges, including broken down rides in piles between "attractions".
Although the premise of the place is great (petting zoo with jumping pillow, tricycles, tractors and tire structures to climb on), it wasn't remotely like a "farm", other than a small area of tulips growing (separate charge to enter). This is a dirt lot with ill-kept animals and lots of junk/garbage with some simple fun outdoor activities mixed in. Normally our family loves a good farm/pumpkin patch/countryside farm attraction, but this place was depressing, and downright appalling when it came to the animals' conditions.
*I understand that there was a fire in one of the structures recently, and none of the demolished area was included in this review.
**I grew up in the countryside and with four kids, I've been to more farms/petting zoos/county fairs, etc., than I can count. I like my kids to play and get dirty and don't expect a farm to not have a few hazards and much dust/mud.
