Visiting The Farm at Walnut Creek in Ohio Amish Country

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I’ve been wanting to visit the Farm at Walnut Creek in Ohio Amish Country for a while now. It’s hard to get a day with Jamie’s work schedule and taking a long day trip with both boys feels really intimidating. But not anymore! We made plans with some friends to drive out there for the farm’s annual Fall Festival. Sugarcreek is about two hours from Columbus, but despite the long car ride and a bout of car sickness from the windy back roads, Liam and I both agreed that the trip was totally worth it.

The Farm at Walnut Creek is probably most well known for the many animals that live there. In addition to the normal animals you might expect to find at a farm like horses, sheep and cows, they also have buffalo, llamas, zebras and camels. Plus the favorite from our trip – the giraffes! You can hand feed all the animals in their Animal Park. They have the option of driving your own car or you can take a horse drawn wagon ride. We opted to ride the wagon so that we could all sit together.

Liam did so great! Even when a llama tried to steal his food bucket, Liam was able to hold onto it with the help of a new friend.

Caleb and I didn’t feed the animals (wrangling a toddler is difficult enough), but we did enjoy petting any animals that stuck their noses our way.

Everyone loved feeding the zebra.

But the highlight, of course, were the giraffes.

After the wagon ride, we were able to take our leftover feed to the camels. They were so excited to see us.

The fall festival happens every year in October. Weekday activities (Monday-Thursday) are a little abbreviated from the full list and include a corn box, pumpkin slingshot, straw castle, maze, scavenger hunt and wagon rides through the animal park. On the weekends (Friday and Saturday), the Farm also has horse-shoeing and blacksmithing demonstrations, apple butter cooking, sorghum cooking, and demonstrations for candle carving, spinning and weaving, broom making and basket weaving. I would love to check out the fall festival on a weekend next year, but the weekday activities were plenty.

Liam and his friends said that their favorite activity of the day was the pumpkin slingshot.

But they also clearly enjoyed the straw castle.

We packed in our own lunches since the Farm at Walnut Creek has picnic areas. But they also have food for sale during the fall festival. The kettle corn and apple cider are so yummy. They’re also the perfect snack for the ride home. Which was right at nap time for us, so I had a blissfully quiet drive home. The perfect ending to a really fun day. We can’t wait to visit again!