Corn Maze - My Trip To Tanner's Orchard (Speer, IL)
So today, me, my friend Karyn, & her sister Kim (who did not want to be on video, but you can hear) went to Tanner's Orchard in Speer, IL - about 30-45 minutes North of Peoria on IL-40N. We had a blast, & to end the fun visit, (We ended up being there for 5 hours, you'll easy lose track of time when your there!) we did their Corn Maze! Below is some info for the Corn Maze along with info about/for Tanner's Orchard. If you plan on having a fun trip with your friends/family in Autumn, I would DEFINITELY RECOMMEND going to Tanner's Orchard!
Tanners Orchard has been family owned and farmed since 1947. We strive to create a family atmosphere where fun is the order of the day. Since farming is what we do day in and day out, we open our family farm to the public for four-and-a-half months each year. On our farm you will find our orchard, the Back 40 Fun Acres, farm animals, a corn maze, our market and bakery, plus so much more. Make our family farm a unique tradition for your family this fall!
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Call Tanner's Orchard: 1-309-493-5442
Email them: info@tannersorchard.com
Write them: 740 State Route 40, Speer, IL 61479
Directions (From Big Areas In Illinois):
*Chicago: I-80 west to Route 40 South, Exit 45
*Peoria: Knoxville / Route 40 North, 17 miles from Lake of the Woods
*Bloomington: Route 39 North to Route 17 West, Exit 35
*Springfield: I-55 North to I-155 North to 74 West to I-474 West to Route 6 North to Route 40 North, Exit 6
*Galesburg: Route 150 East, to Route 78 north to Route 90 east to Route 40 North
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3 minutes in an Autumn Apple Orchard
Come with me to the country and visit an authentic Apple Orchard! Nothing beats a drive in harvest season and the fresh country air.
Since 1947, four generations of the Tanner family have welcomed you to an amazing country farm experience. The roots of the apple tree run deep. You might say the same thing about the Tanners; their roots run halfway around the world to the town of Walde, Switzerland. It was there that Rudolph Tanner ran his family’s apple orchard until 1906 when he set off for the “new world.”
Rudolph and his new bride, Mina, settled in Deer Creek, Illinois, and started a new orchard and family. Rudolph and Mina raised lots of children and lots of apples.
Their son, John, the seventh of eleven children, eventually took over the Deer Creek orchard. John and his wife Margaret raised their apples and children.
Unfortunately, the Deer Creek orchard was five dusty, bumpy miles from the nearest “hard road.”In 1947, John found a new place; an 80 acre farm near Speer, Illinois, with 20 acres of well established apple trees right next to Old Route 88 (now Route 40), and he and Margaret moved there with their four children. The rest is history!
Tanners Orchard has become a family destination with a bakery serving noon lunches, a large country farm market, wagon rides to the orchard for pick your own apples and pumpkins, a corn maze and the Back 40 Fun Acres with farm animals.
As the fourth generation of Tanners remain optimistic about the future of our diversified family farm, we hope to keep growing fruit, fun and memories for future generations. Hard work and the blessings of God are very sweet fruit indeed.
* Apples are the most widely grown fruit in the world
* There are over 7,000 varieties of apples grown throughout the world and 2,500 of those are grown in the United States.
* The crabapple is the only apple native to North America.
* Apples are part of the rose family.
*It takes 2 pounds of apples to make a 9-inch pie.
*The largest apple ever picked weighed 3 pounds.
* It takes about 36 apples to create one gallon of apple cider.
Tanners Orchard
740 State Route 40
Speer, IL 61479
tannersorchard.com
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