You can grow it, shuck it, pop it, cook it, make fuel with it and for the last 11 years … even play in it!
With more than 3,500 reported uses, corn may just be the world’s most widely-used crop. Its current popularity, seems less about eating it and includes getting lost in it to benefit GRIP Boys Home and on opening day, Ozarks Food Harvest.
Owners of the MAiZE fundraiser are preparing for 11th year of popular puzzle pastime and planted a field of dreams.
With over seven acres of corn to be planted and their new mind-boggling design, members of GRIP Boys Home, with the help of Jim Sherwood’s farming expertise, are bringing the “MAiZE craze” back to Missouri for its 11th season.
This year, the MAiZE and Springfield Cardinals have created a field of dreams. Missouri’s original MAiZE, the popular Verona labyrinth that drew thousands of visitors last fall, will once again get curious maze-goers lost when it opens to the public on September 19.
Staff members of GRIP Boys Home hope to give even more people a chance to experience the unique source of good farmin’ fun. Though the correct pathways can be walked in 40 minutes, most directionally-challenged visitors -- adults and children alike -- will take longer to travel through more than two miles of twists and turns and 85 decision points in the seven acre puzzle.
There is something for everyone … the cow train, movie nights, hay rides, campfires, country store, hillbilly shootin’ range, corn cannon, boxer jocks, pumpkin chuckin’, farm animals, to name a few.
Also, check out the corn box and bouncers for the young ‘uns. And don’t forget a trip to ‘the feed wagon’ for some of their famous chili, and more.
The MAiZE will donate 100 of ticket sales from September 19 to Ozarks Food Harvest. September 19, opening day, will be kicked off with a Strongman Competition at 4 p.m.
So, if your feeling tough, come out and enter to win hundreds in cash and prizes, then stay for the pie eating contest, corn shucking contest, greased pig chase, live music and fireworks, noted David Doner, program director.
The MAiZE will give visitors the chance to "get lost" September 19 through October 31, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Fridays 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.; and Saturday noon to 10 p.m.. (The last tickets are sold at the posted closing time. The MAiZE is closed Sunday through Tuesday.
The cost is $8 for ages 12 and up, $4 for ages five through 11 and free for veterans and military with ID and kids four and under.
Field trip hours are 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday by reservation only. Discounts are offered for groups and field trips.
For more information or to make field trip reservations, call 417-498-6191 or 417-498-6071; email themaze.verona@gmail.com; or visit www.gripboyshome.com.
Sponsoring the event are Springfield Cardinals, Clear Channel Communications, Pioneer Seed and Coast to Coast in Monett.
The MAiZE is operated by GRIP Boys Home in Verona. GRIP provides residential therapeutic services for boys ages 12 to 18. For more information about the program contact David Doner, program director at 417-498-6852.
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You can grow it, shuck it, pop it, cook it, make fuel with it and for the last 11 years … even play in it!
With more than 3,500 reported uses, corn may just be the world’s most widely-used crop. Its current popularity, seems less about eating it and includes getting lost in it to benefit GRIP Boys Home and on opening day, Ozarks Food Harvest.
Owners of the MAiZE fundraiser are preparing for 11th year of popular puzzle pastime and planted a field of dreams.
With over seven acres of corn to be planted and their new mind-boggling design, members of GRIP Boys Home, with the help of Jim Sherwood’s farming expertise, are bringing the “MAiZE craze” back to Missouri for its 11th season.
This year, the MAiZE and Springfield Cardinals have created a field of dreams. Missouri’s original MAiZE, the popular Verona labyrinth that drew thousands of visitors last fall, will once again get curious maze-goers lost when it opens to the public on September 19.
Staff members of GRIP Boys Home hope to give even more people a chance to experience the unique source of good farmin’ fun. Though the correct pathways can be walked in 40 minutes, most directionally-challenged visitors -- adults and children alike -- will take longer to travel through more than two miles of twists and turns and 85 decision points in the seven acre puzzle.
There is something for everyone … the cow train, movie nights, hay rides, campfires, country store, hillbilly shootin’ range, corn cannon, boxer jocks, pumpkin chuckin’, farm animals, to name a few.
Also, check out the corn box and bouncers for the young ‘uns. And don’t forget a trip to ‘the feed wagon’ for some of their famous chili, and more.
The MAiZE will donate 100 of ticket sales from September 19 to Ozarks Food Harvest. September 19, opening day, will be kicked off with a Strongman Competition at 4 p.m.
So, if your feeling tough, come out and enter to win hundreds in cash and prizes, then stay for the pie eating contest, corn shucking contest, greased pig chase, live music and fireworks, noted David Doner, program director.
The MAiZE will give visitors the chance to "get lost" September 19 through October 31, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Fridays 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.; and Saturday noon to 10 p.m.. (The last tickets are sold at the posted closing time. The MAiZE is closed Sunday through Tuesday.
The cost is $8 for ages 12 and up, $4 for ages five through 11 and free for veterans and military with ID and kids four and under.
Field trip hours are 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday by reservation only. Discounts are offered for groups and field trips.
For more information or to make field trip reservations, call 417-498-6191 or 417-498-6071; email themaze.verona@gmail.com; or visit www.gripboyshome.com.
Sponsoring the event are Springfield Cardinals, Clear Channel Communications, Pioneer Seed and Coast to Coast in Monett.
The MAiZE is operated by GRIP Boys Home in Verona. GRIP provides residential therapeutic services for boys ages 12 to 18. For more information about the program contact David Doner, program director at 417-498-6852.
