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Operating Hours:
Open Friday, Sept 20 – Sunday, November 3
Hours:
Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday – 11am – 6pm
Friday and Saturday – 11am – 10pm
Closed Mondays except 10/14 and 10/21 – 9am – 6pm
Closed Tuesdays
Last Corn Maze, Goat Walk, and Kid Walk ticket sold 1 hour before closing
Kitchen closes 1 hour before closing
Bakery closes 30 minutes before closing
Please call us at 704-562-4021 for more information about our fall season.
Hall Family Farm was started in 2008 at the original homestead. We are now in Lancaster, SC and have been there since 2021.
![We are one week away from our fall season opening, September 20th, and I want to share with you the good, bad, and ugly.
The good: the farm is in great shape for opening. The corn maze is pristine and we are very excited to debut our new smartphone-based maze game with escape room type puzzles to solve, our pumpkin crop is chugging along, and we have a couple exciting new things.
The bad: the increasingly violent and erratic weather is my mortal enemy. There is one 2-week period each year where a blowout storm can be very very bad; that is immediately after we make the new strawberry beds for the next year's strawberry crop. Well, we were hit with not one , but two violent thunderstorms one week after laying 4 acres of plastic and a nearly perfect job was wrecked...the worst damage in 17 years growing strawberries. We have put in a less than stellar fix and will spend hundreds of hours of labor this fall and winter in additional maintenance.
The ugly: last year the strawberry industry was severely impacted by what is believed to be an aggressive new strain of an old fungus that attacks strawberry plants, neopestalotiopsis. To help mitigate the risk of this fungus, we chose to raise our own plants from uninfected Canadian strawberry runners. The day the truck was to leave Prince Edward Island, we learned that the fungus had infected almost all Canadian plant sources, including our source. On a historical note, the NC strawberry plant propagation industry fled to Canada in the early 2000s because the warming climate in the Carolinas was allowing a devastating plant fungus, anthracnose crown rot, to permanently reside in the Carolinas and destroy the strawberry industry. Leap forward 20 years of ever warmer and wetter seasons and a new, even worse fungus is ransacking Canadian strawberry sources. It has negatively impacted every grower in the industry. Millions of plants died, growers cancelled orders for their plants and scrambled to find uninfected plants, but nearly all plants now originate in Canada and are presumably infected. [continued in comments]](https://www.hallfamilyfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)