The annual Corrales Harvest Festival and the Wagner’s Farmland Experience corn maze attract visitors by the thousands in search of some old-fashioned country fun for children of all ages.
The 24th annual Corrales Harvest Festival, September 26-27, 2009, is indeed a community event, with special activities planned throughout the village, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. each day. Festivities include the annual pet parade, salsa contest, home-made pie contest, juried arts and crafts show, 5K and 10 K runs, and hayrides throughout the village, plus: Entertainment, ponies, vaulting and face painting at the Village Mercantile; wine and gourmet food tasting at the Frontier Mart and beer tasting at the Corrales Bistro Brewery; Mercado Antiguo, crafts for children, apple tasting and corn shelling at the Old Church; animals, blacksmiths, a puppet playhouse, Spanish guitar and traditional music at Casa San Ysidro; and Kid’s Zone with rides at the Corrales Recreation Center east soccer field.
Wagner’s Farmland Experience – complete with corn maze, pumpkin patch, petting zoo, ristra tying, cow milking, farm tour, horse and plow demonstrations, and live entertainment – is open mid-September through October at Wagner’s Farm, 6445 Corrales Road in the heart of Corrales.
This year’s theme is “Experience Farming: It’s Down To Earth Fun.â€Â Wagner’s Farmland Experience will feature a 6-acre corn maze, hayride, orchard tour, pumpkin patch, Saturday evening mazes with bonfires, and a collaboration with the Land/Art project featuring artists Jaune Quick-To-See Smith and Neal Ambrose Smith, celebrating the animals of the middle Rio Grande Valley.
www.wagnersfarmlandexperience.com or www.corralesharvestfestival.com.