Lichfield Maize Maze
Come and explore our incredible maize mazes, wander through our beautiful sunflower and wildflower field, and enjoy pumpkin picking and our unique Pumpkin House here at Lichfield Maize Maze.
Lichfield Maize Maze first opened in July 2022 on our family run arable and potato farm only 2.5 miles from the centre of the beautiful cathedral city of Lichfield and 12 miles from Birmingham city centre.
We look forward to sharing our beautiful farm with you as you come and explore our amazing maize mazes, take a walk through our avenues of sunflowers surrounded by wildflower strips, and enjoy an ice cream or snack in our picnic area whilst your little ones let off some steam in a safe and healthy environment (hopefully with the sun shining down!). Browse a selection of gifts and, season allowing, take home some beautiful sunflowers freshly picked from our sunflower picking patch.
Then, come back in October for some spooky family fun with a walk to our hidden pumpkin patch to find your perfect pumpkin (watch out for some surprises on the way!), complete new spooky maze games, and have a photo in our incredible Pumpkin House!!
We are absolutely thrilled that after only one year, we won the Muddy Stilettos “Best Family Attraction” Award (West Midlands and Warks). We also picked up numerous awards at the Lichfield Beacon Awards 2023 & 2024 including winner of the ‘Commitment to the Environment Award 2024’.
Your beautiful maze and sunflowers have brought something completely new and unique to Lichfield. Your new business has had such a positive impact on the community.
Mike & Felicity
Your Pumpkin House is absolutely amazing!!! A photo in the pumpkin house every October is our new family tradition!
The Wilson family, Birmingham
What we do
Come & Visit Us
We plant our maize, sunflowers and pumpkins in May as well as strips of special bumblebee and butterfly wildflower mix to support and promote the biodiversity of our beautiful farm. With plenty of sun and rain, and lots of tender loving care from farmer Richard, a lush and beautiful field of maize, sunflowers and wildflowers appears just in time for the summer holidays! After everyone has been to explore and enjoy our maze and sunflowers throughout the summer and early autumn, it is all hands to the deck to get ready for some spooky Halloween fun! Our incredible Pumpkin House is erected and some rather funny and slightly spooky visitors appear! What will they be doing this year??? Don’t forget to have your annual family photograph in our Pumpkin House! At the end of October, our maize is harvested for cattle feed and our sunflowers are left uncut to provide food and shelter for our wonderful birdlife throughout the winter months. We will keep you up to date with the progress of our crops on our Facebook and Instagram pages. Please follow us and tag us in your social media feeds, use hashtag #lichfieldmaizemaze
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A little bit about us
In 2020/2021 after multiple (character building!) challenges of bad weather, Covid and farming generally being a wonderful but tough industry to be in, we decided that we needed to find ways to diversify our farming business. The idea of trying to link a new venture to our love of farming the beautiful British countryside, sustainability and the simple things in life led us to come up with a seed for plan, and so Lichfield Maize Maze, Sunflowers & Pumpkins was born!
We, Richard and Alice live on our potato and arable farm with our children, Katy, Edward and Henry. We are passionate about farming sustainably and the nature and biodiversity of our farm, and have found a way to combine all of these things whilst hopefully engaging with the public and sharing our beautiful little bit of England with you!
Richard has farmed here since 1997, and he and Alice are keen to grow and safeguard the future of the farm for their children who are all very keen young farmers!
We thank you for your incredible support in our first few years and we can’t wait to welcome you back as well as to meeting and welcoming new visitors to our maze!
We are only open to the public seasonally, please check before coming to visit us.
We welcome your feedback so that we can make Lichfield Maize Maze better and better each year!
Thank you so much for your support.
Meet the Team
Richard
Farmer Extraordinaire
Alice
Head of Everything
Katy
Sunflower Picking Pro
Edward
Head of Security
Henry
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