TAMPA, Fla. — Charlotte Weronik knows how to find her way out on the farm.

“If you do the maze correctly it’ll be one mile,” she explained, “It is five acres. It has a lot of twists and turns and little stops with scarecrows and mirrors and tables and decorations that you can take nice pictures in.”

The fifth grader volunteers here at the Fox Squirrel Corn Maze in Plant City.

She hasn’t missed a weekend, and she helps set up too.

She looks through the hundreds of little funky gourds near their pumpkin house, which clearly a witch lives there. “When pumpkins feel really light and hollow and they have all these spots, it means that they are going bad,” said Weronik.

Her next job? Weronik drops a peace offering.

“I am putting sunflower seeds around the base of the tree,” she said.

That’s because it will distract the fox squirrels from eating all the pumpkins.

“It’s a very good snack for them, but this kind of distracts them from that,” Weronik said.

Set up also calls for someone to test the equipment, so she bounces on the jump pad under large oak trees covered in Spanish moss.

“Sometimes it’ll be way too puffed up that it’s very hard or it will be very floppy and hard to bounce on, but right now, it’s pretty good,” Weronik explained.

Weronik discovered this Florida-style fall celebration thanks to her aunt and the event organizer, Lisa Steward.

“I like helping her with flowers and unloading pumpkins like I am right now,” Weronik said.

She’s the only 9-year-old kid she knows with her advanced seasonal celebration skills.

“It’s a very unique experience and it’s quite fun,” Weronik said.