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The Lone Pine Farms corn maze is located 4.5 miles north of Beltline on River Road.
A-maize-ing fright
CAUTION: The Lone Pine Farms corn maze is
intended to scare and may cause screaming and fun
BY ASHLEY GRIFFIN
FREELANCE EDITOR
Just outside Eugene, a group of
college-age students are doing
something a bit different during
the Halloween season.
Imagine a life where caramelizing
apples involves more than microwav
ing caramel, where everyone works
an 11-hour day and where a sign out
side reads “Caution Farm Area.”
This fall, the workers at Junction
City’s Lone Pine Farms live this life.
Located 4.5 miles north of Beltine on
River Road, the country store, pump
kin farm and corn maze are deeply
saturated in a country atmosphere.
Old churns and bins of roasted
peanuts fill the store; the tempting
scent of homemade pies and hand
dipped apples fills the air. A photo of
a cow even hangs above the bath
room sink — no space is safe from
the country influence.
The employees inside the store are
as unique as their surroundings. The
group works at the farm from May to
November, but it’s the haunted
month of October that draws the
biggest crowd and takes the most en
ergy from the workers.
Eugene native Melanie Tfuhn has
worked at the farm since June. TYuhn
said working there has provided a
break from college and an opportuni
ty to discover that the country life
and community suit her well.
“There’s little kids yelling that they
want ice cream and seniors ... 1 love
old people ... all getting their pro
duce,” she said as she buttered the
tops of hot apple pies.
Another of TYuhn’s jobs is making
the daily batch of caramel apples, a
process that takes about an hour and
a half. She heats the caramel, and
then de-stems the best apples from
the produce bins. Then she dips them
in the pot of caramel and sets the fin
ished product out for purchase.
“You learn a lot of really random
skills at this job, like dipping
caramel apples and cutting squash,”
TVuhn said.
Another odd part of the job in
cludes working Lone Pine Farm’s
Haunted Nights Corn Maze, which
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