Galloway Farm Featured by the North Carolina Farm Bureau
The North Carolina Farm Bureau recently visited Galloway Farm in Hallsboro to film “Fall at Galloway Farms,” a short video about our family farm, Maze Craze and Farmer Alma’s work connecting people with agriculture. Watch the full video below.
A Family Farm Since the 1940s
Galloway Farm is Jason Galloway’s family farm, and Alma explains in the video that it goes back five generations. The family made its first purchase of farmland in the early 1940s.
Over the years the Galloways have grown tobacco, corn, oats, soybeans and hay, and today the farm also raises beef cattle.
Field Trips and Farm Education
Agritourism came to the farm 16 years ago. Today, Galloway Farm hosts school field trips Monday through Friday, mostly for students from pre-K through third grade, which Alma calls her “sweet spot.”
Field trips focus on crop education: the crops the family grows and what those crops are used for.
Each October, Alma also leads an anti-bullying presentation built around Spookley the Square Pumpkin. It opens with a puppet show, and its message is acceptance, tolerance and kindness: helping kids see that it’s okay to be different.
How the Maze Designs Began
When the maze started, it covered 11 acres, and the very first design was a cow, a nod to the Belted Galloway cattle on the farm at the time.
Alma saw a bigger opportunity in the design. She offered it to a local car dealership at no charge to see how it would go, then invited other businesses to sponsor it. Over the years, maze designs have featured brands including Netflix, a local community college, Wilmington International Airport and Lucas Nelson, the son of Willie Nelson. Now she is giving smaller businesses a chance to win the design.
Today the maze covers 15 acres: a 13-acre main maze and a 2-acre kids’ maze with educational trails and story trails.
Agritourism That Supports the Farm
Maze Craze is a fun place to spend a fall day, but Alma wants every visitor to know it is a working farm. “I don’t ever want to get so disconnected,” she says in the video. When guests arrive, you’ll often find her out talking with them about the family farm and why they do what they do.
Alma estimates that about 95% of the income from agritourism goes right back into the beef cattle operation and the row crops. To her, that is what agritourism should be: supplemental income that helps farms preserve their land, keep it in farming and pass it on to the next generation.
Visit Galloway Farm
Thank you to the North Carolina Farm Bureau for telling our story. Maze Craze 2026 runs through November 7 at 372 Artesia Road in Hallsboro.
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