Every fall, thousands of people flock to a farm in Lodi, Wisconsin, to get lost in a work of art made of corn! Since 2001, Treinen Farm has carefully designed, planted, cut, and grown elaborate corn mazes.
Each one has a different theme, like unicorns, kittens, or dancing cranes. They all come from the mind of owner Angie Treinen. “I start with abstract ideas that I turn into a physical picture,” she says. Next, she designs the maze on computer software and adds a grid. The grid must be the correct scale, so that her design can be accurately cut into the corn field.
Every fall, thousands of people visit a farm in Lodi, Wisconsin. They want to get lost in a work of art made of corn! Since 2001, workers at Treinen Farm have built elaborate corn mazes. They carefully design, plant, cut, and grow the mazes every year.
Each maze has a theme, like unicorns or kittens. Farm owner Angie Treinen is the one who thinks them up. She starts with an idea, then makes a drawing, and then a digital image. She adds a grid over the image to help the team scale it up accurately.