{"id":7744,"date":"2013-09-21T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=7744"},"modified":"2013-09-21T01:40:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T06:40:27","slug":"tennessees-soggy-summer-doesnt-dampen-falls-farm-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2013\/09\/21\/tennessees-soggy-summer-doesnt-dampen-falls-farm-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee\u2019s Soggy Summer Doesn\u2019t Dampen Fall\u2019s Farm Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33044\" title=\"The Tennessee Department of Agriculture\" alt=\"The Tennessee Department of Agriculture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tnag.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"137\" \/><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; \u201cWe grew 134 varieties of pumpkins and gourds this year, plus the prettiest mums we\u2019ve had yet,\u201d said Andrew Dixon, farmer and operator of Granddaddy\u2019s Farm near Nashville. \u201cThe rain didn\u2019t hold us back. In fact, the corn maze is taller and greener, and everything is better than it\u2019s been since we\u2019ve opened the place\u2014I think even the racing pigs run faster!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee\u2019s cool, rainy summer may have been a mixed blessing for farmers, helping some crops and hampering others, but now that fall is here, the state\u2019s agritourism operators see no downside.<!--more-->\u201cThere\u2019ll be plenty of pumpkins in the patch, plus hayrides, farm animals and a great corn maze, too,\u201d says Ann Linginfelter of Deep Well Farm near Lenoir City. \u201cBesides, our customers know that we offer a lot of awesome activities that just need the wide open spaces you find on a farm. Rope walls and monster slides and tire swings are fun anywhere\u2014they\u2019re just more fun at the farm, on a beautiful fall day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At West Tennessee\u2019s Todd Family Fun Farm, traditional activities like milking cows are getting an upgrade. \u201cWe have groups who come and enjoy a high-tech, team building treasure hunt game called geo-caching,\u201d says farm owner Martha Todd. \u201cTeams navigate around our farm with hand held GPS units to find hidden &#8220;caches&#8221; of clues, trying to be the first to explore the course successfully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Todds also bridge the gap between old fashioned and new fangled with a game using smart phones, so that visitors can access information and learn more about farm life by using qr codes placed at stations around the farm.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of agritourism farms across Tennessee focus on the time between Labor Day and Halloween night to entice the public outdoors for colorful autumn days, entertaining festivals or spooky evenings. School groups on field trips, teenagers looking to haunt and be haunted in an orchard or cornfield, and frugal shoppers looking for fresh, high quality fall d\u00e9cor make local farms a popular autumn tourism destination.<\/p>\n<p>Find Tennessee fun farms, orchards, crop festivals and fall d\u00e9cor at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.picktnproducts.org\" >www.picktnproducts.org<\/a>. Follow Pick Tennessee Products on Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; \u201cWe grew 134 varieties of pumpkins and gourds this year, plus the prettiest mums we\u2019ve had yet,\u201d said Andrew Dixon, farmer and operator of Granddaddy\u2019s Farm near Nashville. \u201cThe rain didn\u2019t hold us back. In fact, the corn maze is taller and greener, and everything is better than it\u2019s been since we\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[8562,8565,1380,8563,2317,1919,8566,284,8564,8567,228],"class_list":["post-7744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-andrew-dixon","tag-deep-well-farm","tag-gps","tag-granddaddys-farm","tag-halloween","tag-labor-day","tag-lenoir-city-tn","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee-agritourism","tag-todd-family-fun-farm","tag-west-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7745,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions\/7745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}