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"New Hampshire has at least a dozen corn mazes open now at farms from East Conway to Plainfield and they offer a great outdoor family experience.I took my 83-year-old mother to the maze at Moulton Farm, Tuesday and we wandered around, answering trivia questions at the dead ends.There are a lot of dead-ends. It takes about 45 minutes to find the exit.Like life, you make bad decisions more than you make good ones. And sometimes, you have to go backwards.If you could only see from above. The maze would make itself so much easier.Each maze is, of course, very different and from the air they form beautiful photographs like the one here of this year's \"Maize\" (I know its corny) at East Conway's Sherman Farm.This form of outdoor entertainment is a relatively new offering in the state.One of the first, if not the first NH corn maze was built in 2000 at Moulton Farm in Meredith by Rob Stephens, farm manager.Stephens is still cutting and maintaining the maze.19003418\"Now it's a pretty good part of our fall business,\" with families coming to spend about an hour wandering through the four acres of what will become silage corn.This year's design, set out on grid paper in winter, depicts \"Fabulous Bill the Bi-Plane Guy.\"There is a real Bill who offers aerial scenic tours from Emerson Aviation at Laconia Airport, but that is a story for another day.The corn maze costs $6 for adults and $4 for kids. There are cider donuts to enjoy and tons of pumpkins to chose from as part of the whole agritourism experience.Stephens said there are other places with more elaborate mazes, some using GPS units rather than graph blocks.But the process is pretty much the same at each farm and goes something like this.The corn is planted in the spring in full grids by the acre rather than rows. When it is two to three inches tall, using a graph line out, they cut out the path and pull the roots.\"We remove what we mark into the field and then use a weed whacker and establish the pathway,\" he said.Just like any maze, you can go the wrong direction easily and have to return from where you went to an intersection and try out the other options.At Moulton's you find trivia questions as the consolation prize to a dead-end, i.e. No. 7: \"What is the NH state vegetable?\"You get a free treat and all the answers if you get all 10 at the farm stand.In early winter, the field is cut down and the corn is ground up with its stalks to make feed for cows. Nothing goes to waste.Visitors come back, year after year to check out the new design.Like most, the farm is open seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and they allow you into the maze until an hour before closing time.Some mazes are open at night and some are only open during the October months and some are are \"haunted.\"Have fun!Here is a listing of confirmed corn mazes we have found and their contact information:PLAINFIELD - River View Farm 298-8519DERRY - J&amp;F Farms 437-0535MILFORD - Trombly Gardens 673-0647LEE - Coppal House Farm 679-3572EAST CONWAY - Sherman Farm 939-2412CANDIA - Charmingfare Farm opens Oct. 19 483-5623MEREDITH - Moulton Farm 279-3915HOPKINTON - Beech Hill Farm 223-0828GREENVILLE - Washburn's Windy Hill Orchard 878-2101LONDONDERRY - Elwood Orchards 434-6017GILFORD - Beans and Greens 293-2853"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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