Weston Red Barn Farm — Attraction in Platte City

The very first time I went to Weston Red Barn Farm was when I went on a Field Trip to the farm when I was in Preschool at the age of 4 years old. Every time I see or think about Weston Red Barn Farm, I often think of the 1973 animated film Charlotte’s Web. The farm is very cool because visitors get to see different kinds of animals that are typically found on a farm, especially if it’s a public farm. Another reason why Weston Red Barm Farm is special is because the Red Barn building of the farm is filled with many different farm-fresh products, toys, clothing, and other goods that a typically general store would sell. The city of Weston, Missouri might have its festival of Applefest in the downtown area of its city, but Weston Red Barn Farm has all kinds of fun or children and their families to enjoy while they are visiting Weston Red Barn Farm and has its own annual celebration for apples during the entire season of Autumn.

In 1990, Weston Red Barn Farm first opened by Steve and Cindy Frey, The farm is a realization of a life-long dream for Steve, as he had vivid childhood memories of visits to his uncle’s farm in Missouri and wanted to recreate the experience of the family farm for everyone to visit. In the present, Steve, Cindy and their son Donovan, own and operate the farm. Their mission has been to provide an educational experience for children and a place for families to enjoy an authentic farm setting in a safe, peaceful, natural and noncommercial environment. For over thirty years, Weston Red Barn Farm has offered the opportunity of hosting hundreds of thousands of school children from the Midwest. Educational tours are the soul of the farm and every child that visits has an authentic, instructive and exciting opportunity. School Tours are offered in both seasons of spring (April/May) and fall (Sept/Oct), and education is always in season. Weston Red Barn Farm is beyond fortunate to have hosted weddings for over twenty years. The farm features two gorgeous wedding barns. The Red Barn, a converted tobacco barn famous for being the first wedding barn in the Kansas City metropolitan area and the Timber Barn. Engaged couples and wedding guests simply must visit to fully appreciate the beauty and charm of Weston Red Barn Farm’s wedding venues.

Fun during the season of Autumn kicks off early ay Weston Red Barn Farm with apple picking that usually begins Labor Day weekend. Starting in mid-late September, the farm’s Fall Festival weekends feature hayrides on a tractor, pumpkin patches, riding ponies, caramel apples, BBQ, and apple cider. During the week, educational tours for groups are available, or families may stop by and visit the barnyard and country general store inside the Red Barn building. An incredibly diverse selection of colorful pumpkins and gourds are always available for purchase in the main pumpkin yard. In October 2020, I went Apple Picking with a couple of friends that I attend church with, and I even looked at what the animals on the farm are up to during that day. The apples that I picked tasted organic because they were freshly picked, and the animals that I looked at included chickens, geese, ducks, and horses. I went back to Weston Red Barn Farm in October 2022, and I tried apple cider and Cinderella-style caramel apple. I even went inside the country general store which had soaps, candles, toy marbles, toy vehicles, clothes that were themed on Kansas City and the Western genre of clothing, old-fashioned candy, and hot chocolate mixes in small-sized cartons. To be honest, every time I visit the Weston Red Barm Farm, I always enjoy the fun things that families can do at the farm. If there are new families that are moving to the Kansas City metropolitan area, I would highly recommend that the families take their children to Weston Red Barn Farm so that they can enjoy fun activities that relate to the modern day farmer’s life, and that children have a chance to see, meet, and even interact with many different...

Edited to add: Dropped off one more star for the way this business chose to respond. The owner has now blocked me from their Facebook page for leaving the same review there as I did here. They’ve also chosen to deflect the issues back on to me and confirmed that school tours “do take precedence,” accepting no responsibility for the way their staff treated my children on Friday. If you are going to prioritize schools over small groups of children, then shut the farm down to the public on those days or at LEAST, ensure your staff informs PAYING visitors of as much so that they are not so put off when they are barred from the barnyard AFTER paying their hard-earned money to visit.

I will be sure to screen shot your comments and inform all of our friends, homeschool and public schools, of how you choose to operate with poor ethics. I am glad we decided against pursuing a wedding event at this venue; what a nightmare it sounds like that would have been. YIKES.

We were so disappointed with your farm this year. I researched pumpkin patches and decided we would visit yesterday with our three young daughters. We like the smaller, less crowded farms, and Red Barn fits that. They were really looking forward to the hayride and grain train however, when we checked in, we were told those activities are only offered for school groups on the weekdays and everyone else on the weekends. Later we saw this on a sign posted, but it was nowhere on the website or Facebook beforehand. We wouldn’t have come had we known that; these are things we look forward to every year.

Then, we were told the pumpkin patch is only available by hayride and not by foot, because you rotate fields each year. Fair enough but again-this was not marked anywhere.

We decided to just be flexible and make the best of it since we were already there and visit the barnyard, since it was the only activity available. While visiting the animals, we were not once, not twice, but three times told we needed to move so the school tours could visit instead. My kids had to give up their few minutes, which we had paid for, for a school group who clearly took precedence over other paying customers. One of the employees simply told us we had to move and was quite rude about it. She then closed off access to the pigs, calf and goats so we weren’t even able to visit them, despite having paid to do so.

When we visited the chicken coop, the school group was just exiting and the employee was holding a chicken they had all just got to pet. My daughter, who has some special needs and just wanted to see the same chicken all of the other kids just had, was rudely told how to touch it and “that’s enough” before the employee promptly closed the door in her face. We have chickens and this child could probably tell you more about them than the employee, yet was treated like some sup-human not worth a moment of this woman’s time.

We eventually picked our pumpkins from the area you have the pre-picked ones out but I have to tell you, this was the most disappointing pumpkin patch visit we’ve ever had in 10+ years of being a parent. If you’re only going to conduct certain activities for school groups on weekdays, fine, but post it clearly so families like ours don’t come thinking they’ll get to do everything you advertise, then wind up only being able to access the barnyard which they are promptly pushed out of, even after paying.

We love smaller, local farms so much, but we won’t be back to Red Barn. What makes this even more disappointing is that it is so beautiful there and we were strongly considering trying to book it for our wedding next fall, but now we’ll...

I had my wedding reception at the farm last month and only now had time to sit down and write this review. My now wife booked the Barn after she fell in love with it and I went to look at place on a later date with a buddy to plan how the tables would be put in place. The morning of the wedding I took a look at the Google reviews to calm my nerves before heading over to setup, it didn't help, we had a bunch of children coming to the wedding and would want to play outside. The reviews made me more worried because of the statements about the kids. When I got there for setup the people where helpful and very complementary about how quickly we setup and how great we made the place look, I spent my college years setting up for weddings so I really wasn't surprised with that. The reception went great and the owners only had good things to say about the party. I got worried for a minute when children went out to look at the animals but we had no issues like the comments that made me nervous, my best guess is that the children at my wedding were raised to be respectful to the farm and the animals, while the children in the other comments where not aware of the correct way to act around animals. All in all my wife and I had a great time and our families only had good things to say about the reception. I would defiantly recommend the Red Barn...