of Blooms and Butterflies, while learning about
what it takes to keep things growing.
Colorful fields and fun activities.
Schuster's Farm is a family-run business
that's been expanding for three decades.
I met up with Sarah Schuster to learn about
how their family farm got its start
and why it continues to blossom.
- Yeah, so, Schuster's Farm is my family's business.
My parents started the business about 30 years ago
with selling pumpkins on the lawn,
and it just kind of slowly evolved from that.
Then, we added the corn maze and backyard area,
added a bakery.
And three years ago, we actually added our flower field.
- Angela: Very nice.
And I understand the flower field has a name and, like,
a whole thing surrounding it for folks to enjoy.
- Sarah Schuster: This is Blooms and Butterflies.
And there goes butterflies! [laughing]
- They're like, "Speaking of us..."
- Exactly, exactly.
So, we plant a little over an acre of Zinnias
and sunflowers,
a couple acres of sunflowers.
And Zinnias are natural butterfly habitat.
And so, the butterflies just kind of come and enjoy,
and it's really beautiful to get to see them in the flowers.
And they actually just started coming this week.
- Do you have activities surrounding kind
of the launch of Blooms and Butterflies?
- Sarah: So, we have a backyard play area
with over 40 different attractions
for people of all ages to get to enjoy.
So that's open during Blooms and Butterflies.
Then also wagon rides around the farm.
So, we have a really beautiful hilly landscape
of the different fields that people can take that.
And we have photo ops all throughout the blooms.
- Angela: Whether visitors come
for the summer sunflowers,
or the fall corn maze and pumpkin picking,
Sarah says it's all about bringing people
out to enjoy their time at the farm.
- The amount of joy that the farm gives people.
The joy of people that come out with their family
and create traditions,
the joy of kids just kind of getting to be outside
and enjoy themselves.
And now, with the flowers,
they kind of bring a whole different sense
of joy of the awe with them.
- Angela: It's true.
Schuster's Farm is full of joy,
mixed in with games, goats,
and flower fields to frolic through.
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