IMPORTANT SUNFLOWER FIELD UPDATE!

April 21, 2022

IMPORTANT SUNFLOWER UPDATE

Our Sunflowers are behind schedule and we are pretty upset about it

We’ve grown beautiful sunflowers for 4 years… but never in a Texas spring.

We knew it would be a challenge to pull off spring Sunflowers, but this year’s weather was even more challenging than we anticipated.

The evening temperatures dropped lower than average too many nights this spring and our sunflowers were stunted. We hoped they would pull through and get growing. Not only are they definitely behind schedule, but we think they are stunted, heightwise, by the cold weather snaps we’ve had and the drought we endured through mid-March.

It’s been weird weather this year everywhere it seems…Ask our Maryland friends who just had a measurable snow in late April!

While we will have sunflowers, they are definitely at least two weeks behind schedule and going to be shorter in height than anticipated

Don’t fear! We have a back-up plan!

We have just planted another acre of Sunflowers with hopes that the weather stays warm moving forward (and we could use some more rain!)

We are still opening May 7th as planned for our festival activities

As of now, we will NOT have Sunflowers on opening weekend. We don’t think that we will have any blooming flowers until Mid-May as of now.

We are fertilizing the flowers with hopes that the warmer weather ahead will help keep them growing.

Therefore, if you are coming mainly for Sunflowers, not the activities, please postpone your visit to late May or June

SO HERE ARE THE UPDATED DETAILS OF THE SUNFLOWER FESTIVAL

We are still opening for the Festival activities as planned, we are just taking the Sunflower field growth day by day and we will be posting regular updates so stay tuned for those! If Sunflowers are the reason you are coming, please watch or CONTACT US

for updates on the Sunflower Field bloom.

We are EXTENDING our Sunflower Festival through June 26th!

We have high hopes for the recently replanted field scheduled to bloom mid-June!

Plan for late May or June for our Sunflowers to be in bloom.

We have enjoyed sharing our story and journey with you guys. That includes the good AND the bad of building out the new farm. Although we farmed for years, we are having to learn how to farm again here in Texas. (To read our full story about why sold our farms and moved cross country, visit our “About Us” on our website

) We love being a part of this community and we plan to continue to include you as we learn and grow over the years. We are looking forward to hosting y’all on our family farm and we can’t wait to be a part of your annual traditions.

Plus, we’ve got a lot of fun on the farm planned for you!

Thank you for all your support and encouragement you’ve already shown and continue to show.

We love hosting Festivals on the Farm and we are looking forward to doing it for many years to come!

We are getting very excited to open up the farm here in a couple weeks. We’ve got a LOT of fun on the farm for y’all!

We’ve been working really hard and the vision is really coming together!

We will see y’all in just

Days!

🎟 Tickets to the festival, you can pre-purchase them here!

WE OPEN IN 30 DAYS!

April 7, 2022

WE OPEN IN JUST 30 DAYS! 🤩

Are you getting excited? We sure are! 🌻

We’ve been working hard to build new activities (over 15 that is 😉) for you to experience this May on the farm! Mini ziplines, barrel train rides, slides, farm animals, sunflower photo ops and much more! Buy your tickets now and come on out to the farm to experience all the fun our family has built for you to enjoy!

We love inviting the public to our farm to engage visitors in agriculture. Our hope is that each guest will leave with a better understanding and appreciation for those farmers (of many kinds!) that help feed us all every day!

So come on out, we’d love to have you!

🎟 Here is our ticket link: https://westernbellefarm.ticketspice.com/sunflower-festival-2022

-Taylor

Throwing it back…

March 22, 2022

Throwing it back

I’d like to share a little bit more about who we are and why we love Farm Festivals

The year was 2006. I was free child labor for my struggling farmer parents on a 400 acre hay and crop farm in Maryland. Just 6 years prior, they had heard about this “Corn Maze” idea where you cut a path in a corn field and people would pay you money to walk through it. Crazy, right?

Well, my mom decided “why not” and they cut their very first corn maze and opened up in the year 2000. In this photo is me, their free labor, running our famous “pumpkin cannon”. People would drive from hours away to come shoot this cannon. It would launch pumpkins at speeds of 70+ mph toward targets my dad would build.

Over the years, our farm grew as we came up with new and “bigger and better” ideas. In 2009, my dad built “Transformers” out of a tractor trailer and a old farm truck. They stood about 30’ tall and landed us a spot on “The top 15 Maryland Roadside attractions”.

We grew over the years, especially in 2017 when my husband and I purchased the farm and invested in the business to add more activities for kids. We also learned after several years of failures, how to grow one of the most beautiful pumpkin crops in Maryland. Building, growing and educating guests to the farm was our greatest joy.

Growing up in the agritourism business has been something that’s always been in my blood. Some of my fondest memories were at the fall festivals on our farm. I love the creativity I’ve been able to bring to it, as well as the pure happiness of seeing families enjoying a day together on what we worked tirelessly to build for months prior.

I’m so excited to be opening up Western Belle here in this beautiful state we now call “home”. It’s a new chapter for us and our little family and we are excited for it.

Moving a farm cross country comes with its challenges but we’ve been able to maneuver them so far. The vision is really coming together and we are getting REALLY excited to share it with y’all!

Oh… and… We may have brought this cannon with us… and we may be working on a cool target for you this fall