Working Capital
Working Capital 1110
Season 11 Episode 10 | 28m 31sVideo has Closed Captions
As Autumn arrives, Shively Farms is a festive, family-friendly destination to celebrate Fall.
As Autumn arrives, Shively Farms is a festive, family-friendly destination to celebrate Fall. From giant slides, ziplines, swings, games, a corn maze and more, you can really get lost in all the excitement!
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Working Capital 1110
Season 11 Episode 10 | 28m 31sVideo has Closed Captions
As Autumn arrives, Shively Farms is a festive, family-friendly destination to celebrate Fall. From giant slides, ziplines, swings, games, a corn maze and more, you can really get lost in all the excitement!
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Welcome back to Working Capital.
Today, we're at someplace we visited, oh, about a half a decade ago.
Today, we're out at Shively Farms, and you all met Jay Shively about five years ago when we had them on the show talking about the Berry Hill you pick farm.
Well, there's been a little bit of a progression, a little bit of an evolution of what's going on here, so let's just ask Jay what's been going on lately.
Welcome back to Working Capital.
- Hey, thanks for having me.
So what we've done is kind of pivoted from growing strawberries and just kind of lucked into growing sweet corn that we talked about and starting a pumpkin patch.
And now the pumpkin patch is evolved into a fall festival per se.
So now we've got all these farm themed games and all this fun stuff for parents and parents to bring their kids and the grandparents to come take photos.
So here we are now and we've got seven acres of fun.
- Great festival site.
Kind of an agritourism feel to it because you do have the cornfield.
You started off with the sweet corn and the berries and everything.
So let's take us back.
- Okay.
- Because it's not a huge farm.
- Yep.
- You guys live next to it.
So the first time you had the idea for either sunflowers or the berries, how did that first come about?
Because you work a full-time job already.
- Yeah.
- Your family's already doing other things, but here you are providing entertainment and an outlet for all of the families around Kansas.
- Yeah.
So we got the idea of trying to start a farmer's market garden at my father-in-law.
So that's where it all started with Barryton's Best.
So then we bought this piece of land, it was like 26 acres.
And then we though, well, let's scale up our strawberry business and do three acres of strawberries.
Well, then that was a lot of work and weather wasn't very kind.
So then we kind of pivoted in 19.
The fall we couldn't plant strawberries of 19.
So we though, well, what are we going to do now?
So then we though, well, everybody loves sweet corn.
Let's try you pick sweet corn.
And with COVID, it actually worked out great.
Everybody didn't have anything to do.
- Yeah.
- They were kind of on lockdown still.
So we had plenty of acreage that people could sow some distance and pick sweet corn.
So then we though, well, I like fall.
And I always, when we lived in town, I always had cool little trick or treat and I would decorate up the yard, scare the kids.
I mean, I had a blast.
So then we though, well, we got a little bit of spot left.
I ran out of sweet corn seed and I planted 2,000 pumpkins.
So here we come, I think the third week of September, 1st of October, we said, "Hey everybody, we're open.
We've got 2,000 pumpkins.
They're really cheap.
Just come out."
And everybody showed up, filled our parking lot, sold all the pumpkins in one day and we went, wow.
So we found there was a need for a little bit more reasonable cost to pumpkins in the fall fund.
So then the next year, 2021, we planted four acres of pumpkins and had the Shawnee Heights Orchestra come out and help cut.
- Oh, wow.
So kind of a fundraiser for them?
- Yeah.
So it was a fundraiser for them.
And now the orchestra, fast forward, I know I'm kind of skipping.
- That's all right.
- But now the orchestra, we hold a haunted corn maze and this will be our third annual haunted corn maze for those guys.
It's their fundraiser.
So it's kind of evolved.
- So then do they come in and help with it or are they just coming in and they've rented the night out?
- So they come in, they run the ticketing and they usually hire a band and they have a performance.
And then all the kids put all their instruments away and then they go out in the corn maze and they do jump scare type things.
They dress up.
They get really into it.
So the freshmen are really getting into it now.
Now they're juniors.
So it's kind of evolving into a really big event.
So if we can keep the rain away, it would be even bigger.
- That is something for this weekend we're looking at.
So if you're up to date and watching this brand new on our Thursday night, this weekend might be a little rainy.
But on that note, yeah, you were just setting up, getting ready for a big stage for this Shawnee Height.
- Yeah.
So it's October 24th is when we're going to have the haunted corn maze and then we have a band.
I don't know who band it is this year.
I'll have to find out, but they come in, they play.
Actually the orchestra starts.
I think they played the Michael Myers song last year.
And I got a video of it's really great.
They played it and it sounded great.
And then the band started playing.
So yeah, they get all dressed up, gets dark, they head in there and do their job and you hear all the kids running around screaming and having a good time.
2021, we saw even a bigger need.
We sold every weekend on Saturday, Sunday.
We sold pumpkins.
We sold a lot of pumpkins and people started like, "Hey, we like this."
We had one zip line and you could feed cows and goats.
And so it was a really cool experience.
So then we started thinking, "Well, what else can we add for the fun?"
So then we started looking at the internet, Pinterest and started building things.
So now it's kind of involved into over 40 activities.
- And if you're an adult and you come out here and you think you're not going to have fun, I would just say you're lazy because there is so much to do even as adult.
Kids could spend hours out here between the climbing and running and the, I don't know what I want to call it, the barrel race?
The side by side corrugated, - Looks - Like barrels at this point.
- Yeah, we call it the human hamster wheel.
You call it whatever you want.
We haven't really put an official name or a sign up, but yeah, the kids love it.
They roll in things all the time.
Adults get in there.
It's a little bit slower going if you're a little bit taller, but they sure enjoy it.
Parents, they come out.
Like you said, they're just kind of, well, this is more like a kids thing.
And they can do the zip lines.
I mean, they can do a lot of things out here.
We've built things that it's for everybody if you want to be - - You've probably seen some shy parents who are first like, oh, letting the kids in.
They try something like, oh, they're probably running around more than the kids.
- Right.
Yeah.
- So you get into a little family rivalry there.
- Oh yeah.
So then we've got a lot of games, board games, the football, silage football throws, like our new thing from last year.
It was kind of in the middle of the last year.
I was going to make it a music stage and now it's a football throw.
So the dads have been out here really challenging the younger boys and the girls to try to throw and see who's going to win at silage football throws.
So it's kind of fun watching them compete and have fun.
- Just talking to your dad yesterday, I was after shooting B-roll.
I mean, you guys do like providing this family fun.
So where else can you take this to - You?
So we've been talking about it just with sports and baseball and coaching and all that.
It's been trying to navigate what's going to work and what's not.
So we're looking at putting up some buildings possibly and trying to go that route.
And we're looking at possibly doing like an early April starting maybe like birthday parties.
So we're looking at birthday parties, events in the spring.
I wanted to do like a 4th of July event because I think it fell on a Friday or Saturday, so it would have been good.
People in town never been here, something different.
We're right down the road from Lake Shawnee's fireworks show.
So we're looking at possibly having events.
I wanted to hold a sweet corn festival.
Just was kind of too late, wanted to make sweet corn and have people come out and play on all the games.
I know it's a little hot, but we've started a snack shack, so we've kind of got that solved.
It's - New for this year, right?
- Yeah.
It's new for this year.
My daughter's been running, my parents have been helping.
And so we've kind of got that going.
So we're trying to evolve it into kind of a year round thing without it being so... - Overwhelming for your guys as well.
- Yeah, for us and for like, oh, well we went out there twice this summer.
We're not going to make it in the fall.
We want to try to add new things to keep people coming back.
So we want to look at birthday parties and maybe some summertime festivals, maybe like a sunflower festival and sweet corn festival and then have rent it out for birthday parties or something.
That's where we're kind of looking right now.
I know it's kind of early.
We got to have some things fall in place, but that's what we're looking at right this second.
So planning ahead, but we'll see if we can get it done.
- That's neat to hear because you do have a great space out here.
So one big thing though, no matter what happens in the future, whatever you want to add to this, how do you staff this?
Is it all your family?
Do you have any other workers?
How do you make sure this runs because it runs really well?
- Yeah.
So we're working on, so my kids help.
My daughter's been running the snack shack with my parents and then my brother's been helping, my sister-in-law, my nephews and my son's been working the paintball shack.
So yeah, we're kind of all over the place.
It's kind of a family thing.
Shively Farms as we say, right?
So we're kind of all entangled in it.
So yeah, everybody's got a job and we're just kind of working through it, trying to piece it together.
So it was a little overwhelming last weekend.
We had a big, huge rush.
And so my wife was running and getting stuff and yeah, it was all hands on deck.
Hey, help, help, help.
So yeah, it's a pretty fun thing because we used to sell fireworks and it was a family run business.
There were three different families running it.
And so we did that for over 20 some years and now here we are running this.
- What has been the biggest challenge bringing this kind of festival?
Is it getting people here?
Is it the marketing?
Is it, like you say, having to run because something goes down or you need more ice or pop or what's been your biggest hurdle so far?
- Our biggest hurdle I would say would be marketing, getting people to know that we're here.
I'm in town all the time getting parts and stuff and I'm wearing my shirt and my hat.
And they're like, "Well, Shively Farms, where's that?"
And then I run through the list of what we got and people are like, "You've got all that for $10."
Where - Is this?
- Where is that?
And they don't know.
I went to the bank the other day and was talking to the teller and she was like, "Where are you at?"
And I said, "Well, where do you live at?"
And she's like, "Well, I just live right here south of Lake Shawnee."
And I'm like, "We have a sign at 45th and Croco, a neighbor gal.
She lets us put it there for free.
She hooks us up and we let it put it there.
And so it sits there and gets all that road advertisement, but people just kind of don't see that kind of stuff.
So the biggest thing is just getting the word out.
- And you're more focusing social media, word of mouth.
Because for something like this, you've been growing it because you don't know if you'll get a return from that other kind of marketing for only being a limited time throughout the year.
What platform has been your best and made the most impact?
- I would say Facebook's our biggest impact.
I usually try to start around August, even though people are not thinking About the fall festival stuff.
So I think that's why we have kind of leaned towards and leaned into helping schools.
So we got a fundraiser for Barroton.
Well, they kind of know we're here, a lot of people in this area, but a lot of people like around Lake Shawnee, West Side, we're trying to reach out.
So we had Christian Heritage School.
We did a fundraiser trying to reach out there.
And this year they had way more people than they had the first year.
And then we do Tecumseh South.
It's always a big one.
So we're kind of using that as a cheap way to get people out, like you said, word of mouth.
And so it helps the schools, helps the community.
And so yeah, that's where we started and we're still doing it.
And our biggest thing is just trying to get the word out.
- And it keeps a little more profit for you.
I'm sure you guys, you're not doing this to become billionaires.
You like doing it and you like providing this.
So of course if you guys are out there, word of mouth, come check this out.
Like you said, $10 for all this.
- Correct.
- And you could be out here for a few hours and - - Oh yeah.
So typically what we're seeing is like two and a half to three hours, especially if it's cool.
You know what I mean?
Oh yeah.
I think that's what we're going to see this weekend.
I think we're going to have a lot more people staying longer because it isn't hot like it is right now.
So yeah, I think the cooler it is, our parking lot's going to fill up pretty good hopefully this weekend, but that's kind of a bad thing because I don't have a backup plan or do I?
Or do - You?
It might - Be fun.
- Oh wow.
- Yeah.
So we're looking at possibly doing a hay rack ride from another piece of property - To - Get to here, but we'll see.
- That's pretty cool.
Yeah.
- Because - You' had other pop-up stuff before, even starting with the sunflowers and whatnot.
Some weekends you'll have horses come out, you'll have horse rides.
So you do partner with other people in the community to help bring even more entertainment to your fall festival.
I know you guys in the past and even I think a little bit this year have partnered with certain people in the community and their businesses.
I think maybe your paintball, which is one of your newest things.
Tell us about that and how that came to be.
- Yeah.
So we were trying to add something that's unique and more fun.
And so fall, it's apples, right?
So we're looking at getting some apple canons.
We got two apple cannons.
So then we were talking to the apple cannon guy and he said, "Well, what about paintball?
Do you have paintball at your property?"
I said, "No, but I used to play paintball and I loved it."
So he's like, "You ought to look into it."
So we actually threw in both this year.
I'd only planned on doing the apple cannons.
- Yeah.
- And so then we went ahead and did both.
And then by the time we got here, the 1st of August, the money had run out.
So the people that came in was local businesses to help support us in our little journey here for the community.
So they helped sponsor some apple cannon signs, which was huge.
Yeah.
So we had like Premier Farm and Home right down the road, a neighbor of mine, another neighbor that I never even met called him on the phone.
It's a tree service, Wilson Tree Care.
Called him up.
H said, "Yeah, what you need?"
And took care of us, got us some signs.
And then my insurance agent, he got right in, helped out Ryan Opat out of Junction City with American Family.
And then Insanity Fab, he's down the road, he did all of our paintball signs.
So yeah, it was a - - Community coming together.
Yeah.
That's great.
I mean, that's what I love the most on this show is seeing how communities can affect the businesses, let alone the businesses affecting the communities.
This has been awesome.
Stick around.
When we get back, we'll see what other kind of fun there is around the festival.
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Welcome back.
So I think there's one other person or one other group that kind of helped you out too that we just though about kind of during the break.
So I don't want to leave them out also.
- Yeah.
So the one I forgot would be Lone Pine.
So actually they sprayed all my soybeans.
I actually farm some row crop, not a lot, just 50 acres.
So they've got a - Grown - Just 50 acres on top of everything else.
Yeah, not a big - Deal.
And working full time and coaching.
And so yeah.
So yeah, Lone Pine also helped out with the Apple Cannon signs.
They got a nice little pink little pig out there.
They're just down the road east here in Douglas County.
They got a little shop set up with pork.
They raise their own pork.
So yeah, it's full circle.
If - You're getting hungry, look them up.
We talked a little bit about family and I was remembering something your dad had said, because this did start with the other crops and the pumpkins, but was it a grandmother?
Was it someone?
We talked about it in the last show too, but take us back a little bit because frame this up, a childhood memory of yours and how this kind of influenced this.
- Yeah.
So if we're going way back, I think I was four or five, always looking forward to Halloween from when I can remember stuff.
We'd hop in the truck, run to Centralia, usually about the middle of October because we knew grandma had a big giant pumpkins.
We were always wanting to see how big it is.
So that's kind of where it originally started.
The joy for Halloween and all the fall stuff is going to grandma's house up in Centralia, Kansas to get our big giant pumpkins.
That's usually over 100 pounds.
- A family memory leading down the road to other families creating those same kind of memories because all those pictures now they're being taken around here, you're kind of passing on that excitement for the holidays.
And really Christmas is huge, but Halloween seems to be kind of - It's - Getting there.
- It's getting there.
It really is.
I mean, a lot of people from their decorations outside their houses, so it's becoming such a bigger thing.
So you having this outlet close.
And there's other ones around, so I think they all benefit each other because there's multiple weekends.
Granted, you may want to come out here every week.
I don't know if you have a yearly pass or anything.
We do have a - Season pass.
Yes, we do.
- Yeah.That's something I did not expect.
Tell us, when did you start the season pass?
- So we started the season pass last year when we went to $10.
It was easier.
I went with the company that did ticketing and they get your picture taken.
And yeah, we've had a couple season passes last year.
We got a couple season passes this year and people still don't know we have a season pass.
So yes, it's $30 for a season pass.
So I think there's eight weekends.
So if you get a season pass, you can come out to 16 days.
And if you had the Fridays, once we start the Fridays, it's closer to over 20.
- And you were open on Columbus Day, Indigenous People's Day, so that was kind of nice.
I came out.
It wasn't as crowded as the other days.
Correct.
But the people and the kids were having a blast.
Their smiles so infectious.
- Yeah.
When you can go somewhere when school's out and have a great time with your mom or your dad, I mean, it's a bonus.
And then you can run wild because there is no line.
So that's why the weekdays are the best because there's no line.
You can get to station to station to station and then go back.
- Just keep running around in a circle.
- Wear yourself out.
- Tickets, you can buy them at the gate, but can you buy them online then if you went through a ticketing agent?
- Yeah.
So we use Ticket Spice this year.
And if you go to our website, shivelyfarmspumpkinpatch.com, I know it's kind of long, but it all spells it out and it works.
And - We'll put that down here on the screen for you all.
Yeah.
- Shivelyfarmspumpkinpatch.com.
So yeah, you can get your tickets there.
It's through Ticket Spice.
They're a little bit more, but that's the only place you can get the season pass just because we take the picture.
And then when you show up, we scan your ticket.
Oh look, it's so and so.
So yeah.
- And just saying for me a little outside the box with economy being kind of in a crunch right now for everybody.
And the nice thing with being online is if you have those grandparents who are a ways away, they can pre-buy the tickets, give it to their sons and daughters and their grandkids, and then they'll be able to enjoy those pictures and the videos coming from that also.
So it's kind of cool being able to get on tickets.
Talk about a few of the things you do have because some of my favorite festival event.
- Yeah.
So it's funny you bring that up.
We actually had a family buy a six season pass last year.
So I had to hand ride out the season passes and make them unique enough.
So that's what they gave to their kids for Christmas.
It was a six season pass for the kid and the grandkids.
Yeah.
- Early Christmas shopping.
- Yeah.
I might keep the ticketing open just because I didn't have it and I shut it down and then because the ticketing was closed and then that popped up so I had to make them by hand.
So yeah, we might keep that - Going.
I'm not saying they will, but it's one of those things where if you wanted to have a Black Friday flash deal - Yeah, I - Could do something.
- You could do something like that.
The swing, the four person swing where you merry ground, wind it up.
I mean, where do you see these first?
Where do you find all these?
Do you go to other events?
Is it just online only, looking at the internet?
- So my coworker, Chris Gordon, is the one that showed me that, and then me and him built that.
So those are telephone poles because he has his own sawmill business.
So once again, we're kind of going in a circle, help support his business now.
Now he's left where we work and now he's full-time in the sawmills business.
So he's the one that built the chair that's behind you and then the bench that's behind that.
And then he cut the poles and all the wood for the pumpkin house.
But back to it.
Yeah, that's where he had seen it on the internet and said, "Hey, I got a cool idea.
Let's try it."
And so that's what we came up with.
Built it, put it up.
Yeah.
The kids love it.
- Before this came here this year, what has been the biggest attraction here?
What do the kids love the most?
- So it would be the F4 cyclone, that merryground we were talking about, and probably the zip lines.
- And you've added the zip lines.
The first year there's just one, right?
So there was just - One the first year.
- Three, four?
- Yeah.
So now there's four now.
- So you can even kind of race.
Oh yeah.
The water pumping to move.
So there's a lot of stuff.
If you're competitive, whether it's with your friends or you want to go against your kids or if the kid wants to call out their parents, there's a lot of fun stuff to do.
- There's a lot of fun stuff to do.
- Yeah.
What's your favorite thing?
- It's probably, well, without the apple cannons and paintballs, that's pretty fun.
I don't know, that 72 foot tube slide was pretty fun because I test ran it first and I had it at 54 feet and I kind of went flying off it.
So I had to put an extension on it.
So it's pretty wild.
It's pretty fast.
- It's pretty fun.
I did not have the camera going.
I did go down that the other day, but I went down with the camera on- On - The grain truck.
- On the grain truck, which is an ingenuity there.
So something we would have done on the farm that we would have got yelled at.
You've made it much safer and it's fun.
The steps going up.
So you repurpose a lot of stuff for this.
So it's kind of, I don't want to call it recycling, but you're using other things to create this fun and excitement, kind of like the human hamster wheel.
- Yeah.
- Tell us how those came about.
- So funny story, about a mile down the road, a guy had these tubes and I'd been looking for them.
I can't find them.
Or I could go buy them and spend a gazillion dollars.
He actually, he dug them out of his creek because they washed out.
So he posted them on Facebook Marketplace.
I seen them.
I said, "Hey, I'm going to buy them."
He goes, "Oh, somebody's already got them."
And so I was like, "Oh, dang."
So I said, "Well, if he changes his mind, call me back or whatever."
And so about a day later, he never showed up.
So now I have him.
So we're using them.
I got two tubes, one for the trike track.
It's kind of like a tunnel.
Everybody likes to go through a tunnel, yell and scream.
And so the other ones I use for the hamster wheel.
So yeah, repurposing things, finding them on Facebook, trying to find stuff on the internet, trying to create a fall feel of farm equipment for the harvest and that kind of stuff.
- It feels Kansas.
It feels farm.
It's not just a bunch of stuff brought in.
So it does keep that kind of a... Well, to me, it gives those feelings from when I was little growing up on the farm and stuff in the summers and all.
Right.
What's next?
Where are you headed with this?
Because you have to probably plan a few years out here and there, depending on what it is.
Sure, some things can just pop up, but you talked about possibly adding on and maybe a covered area.
Your dad was talking about a little - Bit - Stuff.
Yeah.
- So we're looking at building some buildings and possibly a bigger snack shack.
And - Some of these could actually be places to have more events throughout the year like you were kind of talking about because then you do have that covered space.
So if the sun's out, everyone can stay cool.
How do you gauge how far you want to go for that next season and what's going to be maybe three seasons down the - Road?
Well, I would say the support that we get in the fall really dictates what we do.
I mean, if nobody shows up, we can't really go all out.
- Yeah.
- I mean, I'm trying to stay away from overspending and getting so far in a whole bad weather like we had early in the season where it was raining.
And this is a really weather dependent business.
So I've got to kind of process and think about what it could be and where we can go, but it's the support.
So I mean, today, like on Facebook, we're doing another giveaway.
So it's our third week giveaway.
It's the third week of October and it's going crazy.
So it's the cheapest advertising I can do, but giving back.
So now we've added four tickets, apple shots, paintball shots, and now I threw in horse rides because we got horse rides this weekend.
So yeah.
So it just all comes down to how many people show up, what we can do, look at what we had this year and kind of go from there.
- Yeah.
Sunny, cloudy days.
We know it's all good.
What does happen here when you get a lot of rain?
Do you not open up or do you let people come out and have fun in the mud?
- It's funny you say that because last year we got rained out the weekend before Halloween, but guess what?
We opened up, we had like over 300 people in the pouring rain, not just a little rain, not, hey, it's cloudy like pouring rain and people come out.
It was a mud fest, but they had fun.
- Once you get wet, everything's fun.
I can only imagine the slides in the mud.
Did you have to bring some dirt in and kind of - - Well, we dug some of it out, but yeah, they get it on their shoes.
They were running up and down the truck slide and it was everywhere, but they were having fun and we just let them have at it.
- Besides this, your family, your dad, you run the other event space.
Tell us a little bit about that.
- Oh man.
I don't really get too involved in that, but I get roped into it sometimes.
- Well, I'm going to mention this because like I say, your family likes to provide these experiences.
So what inside your family drew you guys to this?
Because it's different.
A lot of people, whether there was a full-time job or trying to balance it, a lot of people would not find satisfaction in this.
- Right.
It's a lot of work.
- It is.
- Yeah.
It's a lot of planning, a lot of work.
It's just a lot of fun.
And like I said, I've always been entertained with the Halloween and fall.
And so it just really saw a niche in the market that's really what drew me to do this is because there was other places and they're just not affordable.
- Yeah.
- And I feel we're affordable for $10 to come out and play all day and come out at night so we can give you a stamp and you can come back out at night.
And that's the same thing for my parents.
They had a piece of land, saw a niche that they can make something work and built what they built.
- It seems like you had an amazing family growing up and whether you see it or not, you're passing along what your family had to other families.
Right.
So to me, that's huge.
Right.
Especially because where you're keeping these prices.
This keeps it really accessible and I love the way you keep perpetuating the growth each year.
Back to the hamster wheel, you or Colt, who's faster?
- Probably Colt.
He's a little shorter than me, so he gets going.
He's had a lot of practice.
- I'm guessing you guys have probably raced each other in there quite a bit.
- He's got a lot of practice.
- Yeah.
- So he's only 14, but yeah, he's getting there.
He's getting a little taller.
- This coming up weekend though, what's on tap?
Is that the horses this weekend?
That's - Horses this weekend.
- How soon should you get here if you want a horse ride?
I mean, you've had these before.
Is it something people are lined up for?
- Yes.
- Do you get a separate ticket?
Can you get it by a certain time of the day?
- So it's not set in stone.
So we just show up and there's usually a line and it's kind of like a long line.
So yeah, I just show up.
We'll point you in the direction when you get to the grain bin, you go down there, you get in line.
Some lines are a little bit longer.
They kind of get going through them faster.
They're bringing two or three horses.
So I think they're going to have several people to help keep the line down because I told them it's going to be probably busy because we brought them back finally.
We got somebody to provide them.
So yeah, we're excited.
- And you do have a new food barn this year and you said you're just running it.
- Food barn.
I kind of like that.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
So people know what they can get out here every time when they come.
So there is food.
It's not just stopping out here and maybe a beverage and a little something.
You can spend the day, you can have your lunch, you can have an early dinner.
One of my favorite things, you probably can't see in the shot here and we'll show you in some B roll, but you have something you can pet here also.
- Oh yeah.
Yeah.
So we got goats.
We've always had goats since about the beginning.
- You can't help but smile around these little guys anyway, so that's awesome.
Thank you so much for having us out.
We hope you have an amazing next few weekends to round out this season.
Thank you.
We may be looking at some season passes for next year and you might want to look at that too.
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