Beggs all new Phobia Farm and corn maze

October 9, 5:49 AMOzarks Travel ExaminerPatsy Bell Hobson

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Phobia Farm, open Saturdays in October. photo Beggs Melon Co.Inc.

Only fear grows at Phobia Farm, but there are plenty of pumpkins at Beggs Family Farm, just north of Sikeston in southeast Missouri. See a working farm, get lost in the cornfield maze or, enjoy a wagon ride, pick your own pumpkin right from the patch, and watch the Pig Races. And then there's Phobia Farm...

Harvest Festival Admission is $9 per person (ages 2 and up) Activities include rope maze, corn cannon-shoots ears of corn at targets, wagon rides, bon fires, pumpkin patch, and farm animal displays: chicken coop, pigs, sheep, goats and a cow. Families can easily spend a few hours at all the farm activities.

Visit the all new Phobia Farm and buy tickets online. Get directions. Open only Saturday Oct 10, 17, 24 and 31. Cost is $15/per person. Hours are Dusk till? (Last ticket sold at 10pm), Phobia Farm will stay open “till the last person is chewed up and spit out.”

Gourds, corn stalks, straw bales, Indian corn, mums, are for sale in the gift shop. Concessions include homemade fudge, popcorn, and corndogs, turkey legs, hot chocolate, cappucino and Coke Products. No outside food or coolers brought in. UPick pumpkins are sold by weight at .30¢ a pound.

Locals know Beggs for their striped, Starbrite watermelons. Beggs a real working farm, in business since 1895. Each summer they grow 200 acres of watermelons.
Beggs Family Farm, 2192 St. Hwy U Sikeston, MO, Phone: 573.471.3879, Fax: 573-472-0132 and Email:sheila@beggsfamilyfarm.com

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