Designing Your Corn Maze
Some prefer complex designs or themes. Cutting Your Corn Maze. Some hire a professional maze company. If cutting a corn maze yourself, make sure you have proper equipment and cut the corn when under 2ft tall. Keep paths groomed from the start for easy maintenance.
Opening Your Maze to the Public
At this point, advertise and market your corn maze.
Growth and Income Potential
There are variables for income a corn maze can produce – size, distance to a population, other attractions. A maze can gross $30,000 to $600,000 a season.
How to Grow a Corn Maze
If you have garden space or acreage, a DIY corn maze may be in your future and agritourism is booming for farmers. Once you have a design and business plan, it’s time to plant the corn. Corn for a maze is planted late in the season – late season silage stays green while visitors run through.
Preparation and Planning
From choosing the right field and designing a layout, through planting and constructing your masterpiece – this guide provides everything needed to make a corn maze! With careful planning and dedication, anyone can bring their vision of an amazing outdoor adventure into reality!
Creating a Corn Maze
Choose a location on your farm for the maze. Making one is no easy task – you must prepare the field, grow and decorate the corn and list it online so families can find it. At a glance, a maze may seem hard but it can be enjoyable if steps are followed correctly.
Maze Design and Execution
We made our maze a game to find checkpoints – too many makes it too easy. In our 10 acre maze with 6 checkpoints, each has a location map. Attached is a paper punch marking progress on game cards – great for promotion and sponsors. Punch stations prevent cheating. Quality materials prevent theft.
Development and Research
After basic needs, determine income goal per season and visitors needed to reach it – staffing costs too. Research thoroughly – websites, others’ mazes, books on agritourism and corn mazes specifically – the more the better. Design is impossible to over research so develop a detailed plan.
Building a Corn Maze
After the corn is high enough, we go out and cut the maze. Helen, our resident maze expert, draws the maze on graph paper and counts the corn rows to see the area size. Next, they count off rows and cut the path with a tiller.
Maze Activities and Experience
Some mazes tell a story or portray a theme from books, movies or time periods. How much money can a corn maze make? For small farmers, it can be $5,000 to $50,000 annually. How long through a maze? Groups take longer but plan for about an hour and a half. Flashlight nights take two hours as it’s easier to become disoriented.