Other things, attractions as the pig races, are free. There’s a $4.50 charge each for the corn maze and hayride and a fee of $8 for both. Activities include hayrides, corn maze, pick-your-own pumpkins, petting zoo, Amish lunch/bake stand. “Most recently I showed around a group from Saudi Arabia.” Details Ridgeview Farm, 5488 Kinsman Road (Route 87, just 3.5 miles east of Middlefield) 44. “I’ve had 100 groups since early spring,” she said.
Now that her children are older, Grover has developed a thriving sideline as a step-on guide for bus tours of nearby Amish country.
When puppies and kittens are in attendance, they never fail to steal the show. “We have sheep, goats and chickens along with a just-born calf,” she said. A petting zoo is also among the farm’s attractions for those who come to Fall Fun Weekends. The rest she collected from Amish yard sales, and those items help to interpret Amish life for other city folk who come to visit. “Steve’s grandfather didn’t throw away anything so I had a lot of old things for the museum,” she said. Outgoing and fun-loving, Grover juggled farm tasks with the rearing of five children and soon had developed a farm museum inside the barn. She was fascinated with the Amish families which surround them in Middlefield and quickly began making friends among them all while learning about their customs.
Sharon was a city girl from Warren when she met and married Steve Grover and came to live on the farm that’s been in the Grover family since 1926. 16 when Pioneer Days will have old-fashioned games and hands-on candle-dipping and soap-making sessions. Grover has recruited a handful of retired school teachers to help out on Saturday Oct. 2 to dance in the rain and the fall arts and crafts classes that took place yesterday. Some Saturdays have special themes, such as the Indian dancers who came on Oct. Nicholas, 20, is assisted by twins Paul and Phillip in training the pigs for racing. Getting her children involved in the farm’s Fall Fun Weekends is half the fun as work on the farm begins to wind down this time of the year. We’ve already eliminated one of them from racing.” She found a gate for the races online, and Nicholas has trained the animals to begin racing when the gate goes up and he blows a horn. “He’s got to find out which pigs get along best with each other and which are the troublemakers. “My son Nicholas is in charge of training them, and they are really smart,” Grover said. “At first they raced to reach cookies at the finish line, but then we discovered they really like Amish cinnamon rolls, so that’s what they race for now.” The nine piglets were born in late spring and are growing day-by-day, developing their own distinct piggy personalities. “We’ve got nine little pigs, and we race them three at a time, twice each on both Saturday and Sunday,” Grover explained. The pig races at Ridgeview Farm have become a real hit. Events such as this allow farmers to showcase their pumpkins, corn stalks and late-season produce while giving folks a chance to take a hayride, run through a corn maze and get to know a little more about life on a farm. The Grover family is among several area farmers to open their gates to the public in October for end-of-season days on the farm. So it wasn’t a really huge leap to add pig races to the lineup for Ridgeview Farm’s fall harvest festival. Everybody loves little pigs, Sharon Grover said.
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