What’s that down below? It’s Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the gang! If you fly over more than 80 U.S. and Canadian farms this year, you’ll see characters from the Peanuts comic strip. Workers mowed and tilled fields into mazes. The mazes include images of Snoopy snoozing on his dog house or perched on pumpkins. At least two million visitors are expected to wind their way through the cartoony labyrinths.

Farmers offered their corn and sunflower fields to a cause worth celebrating early. Charles Schulz’s beloved comic strip will be 75 next year. Newspapers printed the first Peanuts cartoon in 1950. 

Jill Schulz is Mr. Schulz’s daughter. She thinks the corn mazes are a great tribute to his work. “All of these events help keep my dad’s legacy alive,” she says.

Brett Herbst is the founder of The MAiZE, Inc., in Utah. He runs the world’s largest cornfield maze company. His team members have designed more than 5,800 mazes since the company began in 1996. 

Mr. Herbst says, “The first year we did it, we just used a weed whacker with a saw blade on it when the corn was fully grown. Now we do it when [the corn’s] short, and we go in and either mow it or rototill it.” 

Each design is made on a computer. But most of the work is drawn on the ground by hand. The Peanuts-loving farms range in size from 1.5 to 20 acres. Each one received a design to fit its space. 

Many of the farms also offer hay rides, fresh fruit, and pumpkin carving. Kids can nibble apples while they push through corn stalks and sunflowers to reach Snoopy. 

Why? It is fitting to pay tribute to artists we admire or enjoy. Farmers honor a beloved cartoonist and provide fun for families with their mazes.