If you build it, they will come: How Manitoba farmers created their own 'Field of Dreams'

A hamlet with a population of fewer than 70 residents has successfully brought people back in time to 1989 - the setting, a ‘Field of Dreams’ carved out of cornfields.

A hamlet with a population of fewer than 70 residents has successfully brought people back in time to 1989 - the setting, a ‘Field of Dreams’ carved out of cornfields.

"All you can see is corn, so it’s like you’re in an oasis of baseball heaven," said Joe Gardiner, a farmer in Clearwater.

Rallying around Gardiner and his friends, the community built a 10-acre ballpark and Mother Nature let them live out their baseball dream.

"I think you could do this 999 years out of 1,000 and not get the weather that we had this year," Gardiner said.

"We put down this grass seed, about 20 minutes after we got it down it just poured and we got two inches of rain that night, six inches of snow," said Jace Guilford, who is studying agriculture at the University of Manitoba.

"That's the biggest thing that Joe and I keep saying is the universe wanted this to happen."