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The Farmer's Nightmare is a recycled-material grasshopper sculpture, about 18 feet long and 500 pounds, on the Kaleva Centennial Sculpture Walkway in Kaleva, Michigan. Students built it under metal artist Andy Priest, and it was dedicated on St. Urho's Day, 16 March 2000.
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The Farmer's Nightmare Grasshopper
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Walk the path along Walta Street in Kaleva at dusk and, as WMMQ's John Robinson put it in November 2025, you may meet a pair of bug eyes staring from the edge of the woods. They belong to a giant grasshopper, nicknamed the Farmer's Nightmare, part of the Kaleva Centennial Sculpture Walkway.
The Kaleva Historical Society says the walkway was created in 1999 by the Brethren High School Service Learning class to mark the village's centennial. The grasshopper, which the society calls its most recognisable sculpture, was designed and crafted by the students under Andy Priest, a welder and metal artist from Wellston, and made from recycled items. The society gives its size as 18 feet and 500 pounds and says it was dedicated on St. Urho's Day, 16 March 2000.
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A giant outdoor grasshopper sculpture on a walking path with gardens and other sculptures. WMMQ, in November 2025, described seeing it from the Walta Street walkway at the edge of the woods.
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On the Kaleva Centennial Sculpture Walkway in Kaleva, Michigan. WMMQ places it along Walta Street; the Kaleva Historical Society says the walkway runs from Nine Mile Road north to Wuoski Street. The Kaleva Historical Society describes a walk past gardens and unique sculptures.
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