Trestle Wrencik, 2, delights in picking an apple out of a tree with the help of his grandmother Vicky Logan, Kansas City, Mo., at the Vertacnik Orchard during the Kaw Valley Farm Tour in 2010. At left is Trestle’s grandfather Jay Logan.

Nora Cleland, left, snaps a photograph at the Moon on the Meadow farm on Saturday during the Kaw Valley Farm Tour. Owner Jill Elmers, second from right, was giving a tour of her farm of organic produce.

You will find a lot of things at Pendleton’s Country Market east of Lawrence.

There are the greenhouses, the gardens and the “no left turn” maze. Past those, there are the butterfly bio-villa and the pumpkin patch. The only thing more abundant on the farm than vegetables is probably the smiles, whether they are on the kids in the cornbox — a sandbox, but with corn instead — or on those launching gourds across a field with a huge slingshot.

But you won’t find a bigger smile than the one on the face of John Pendleton when he pulls up on his big green tractor, eager to give a hayride tour of all of those features.

Pendleton and his father, Albert, planted their first half-acre of asparagus in 1980. In the 30 years since, John Pendleton and his wife, Karen, have owned and operated the family farm, which is one of the 21 stops on this year’s Kaw Valley Farm Tour. While he couldn’t give an exact number of this weekend’s visitors, Pendleton estimated it to be in the high hundreds. He attributed the success of this year’s tour to the great weather and variety of attractions available across the area.

“I think it’s important to have the community see the face of agriculture … for people to see what it takes to do production agriculture, to do production horticulture and what it takes to create a living that’s dependent on weather, the markets and everything else,” Pendleton said.

Greg Myer and his family were entertaining themselves on the farm Sunday afternoon, and had made other stops on the tour as well, including at an apple orchard, vineyard and alpaca farm.

“It’s great because this is an industry that is big in Kansas,” said Myer, of Baldwin City. “So it’s great for people to come out and see how it works. They have the production areas, you can go in, you see where the apples and wine is pressed and view all the production equipment. That’s something you don’t get to see every day, and they open it up for you.”

Pendleton said the tour grows every year and this one has been the best yet.

And if you didn’t make it to his stop this year, you can bet he will be on his tractor again next year, ready to show you around.