Best Farm Visit, August 2008

Urban kids can wander around vegetable patches at Underwood Family Farms. During the fall harvest festival, they can ride a buckboard pulled by a 1950 John Deere tractor, cozy up to Harriet the Pig and Honcho the Miniature Horse, wend their way through a maze of tall corn, dance to a bluegrass combo, and best of all, charge up and down the gently rolling hills without their toes ever touching asphalt. Produce-picking events run year-round, and there are animal tours and the de rigueur birthday party packages.