GREEN COVE SPRINGS – Kelly Mosley strolled the massive grounds decorated with pumpkins, antique trucks filled with fall flowers and haybales, farm animals, games and an enormous crop maze.

She seemed unassuming, yet she took every opportunity to welcome guests and thank them for attending this year’s Amazing Grace Family Farms Fall Festival Crop Maze.

The simple gesture wasn’t just about good business. It was genuine. She peered across a field filled with families stopping to take photos, children playing, and little ones joyfully petting goats and other farm animals, and she smiled.

“We look forward to this every year,” she said.

Kelly and husband Justin own and operate Amazing Grace Crop Maze at 4251 State Road 21, about one mile south of SR 16. It takes months to set up the farm and dozens of volunteers to handle the thousands of guests that will attend through Nov. 1.

The highlight is the giant crop maze. Each year, a pattern is cut from a field of sorghum. Themes from the past included a tribute to Green Cove Springs native and Olympic Gold Medal swimmer Caeleb Dressel and Green Cove Springs’ 150^th anniversary. This year’s theme honored the Future Farmers of America.

“We didn’t get any rain in September, and we were worried we’d lose our maze,” Kelly said. “We started getting some rain at the end of the month and the beginning of October, and we saved it.”

Other activities include pumpkin houses, farm animals, a cow train, two jump pads, three corn cribs, games and several photo opportunities.

The crop maze is open on Columbus Day, Oct. 13, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Fridays through Oct. 31 from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturdays through Nov. 1 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Tickets are available at apcropmaze.com/fall.