Historic Hawes Farms pumpkin patch and corn maze opened in 2005.  Thousands of visitors visit every year, and it has quickly become an annual tradition for many North State families.

Hawes Farms was established in 1863, and we are the 6th generation of Hawes still on this land! We have over 150 years of farming in our blood, and Hawes Farms is still a real working farm, growing hay, fruits, vegetables, and walnuts seasonally. We are located in northern California  right along the Sacramento River - between Anderson and Palo Cedro, where the old Deschutes Railroad ran many years ago.

 

The family roots trace back to William Haas and Henrietta Jung who emigrated separately from Germany in the mid-1800s and met in Shasta County. The couple married in 1876 and changed the spelling of their names to the current spelling — Hawes.  Together the couple farmed more than 1,400 acres near Fort Reading on Cow Creek and the Sacramento River.  Hawes' ancestors primarily grew dryland wheat, and the family had the first horse-drawn grain harvester in Northern California.

The legacy of William and Henrietta has been carried on by Glenn and Wanda Hawes.  Glenn and Wanda met while attending College at Chico State. They were married in 1964 and had 2 children, Greg and Lori. Glenn and Wanda started farming out of college with 35 acres of walnuts and some pastureland.

In 1977, Glenn and Wanda decided to open their own feed store in a barn built in 1914. These days Greg along with his wife Nikola, run the feed store and Hawes Headquarters.  They also have a second feed store located in Red Bluff, CA.