This year, we
can’t make the party, so we took matters into our own hands.
There are many pumpkin patches in Long Island, which used to
be mostly farmland until recent history.
As the life of a farmer is not an easy one, many of the farms have
Halloween Extravaganzas on their properties.
I can dial back in time to to my MBA education and understand that once one
farm realized the way to make extra revenue by adding charging admission to
certain “events” like pony rides, hay rides, play grounds, potato cannons,
petting zoos, etc. and then charging an overall admission to the farm (!) for
the experience to later purchase a pumpkin as well as attraction tickets, any
farm that didn’t follow suit just ceded this competitive advantage. But, frankly, my husband I were hoping for
more of a serene farm experience with little more than dirt, pumpkins, and
assorted corn and squash.
Nevertheless, we paid our $1 admission each to enter, and
still managed to get some great farm shots.
The boys enjoyed looking through the greatly picked over pumpkin
assortment, and we picked out a few to bring home. We made some pretty incredible
jack-o-lanterns and my husband made pumpkin soup and toasted pumpkin seeds with
the insides (detailed under a separate post).
This is the third such pumpkin patch experience we’ve had in
Long Island, and I hope that as we keep researching patches for our annual
trek, we are able to find a “vintage” farm to support. Or that our nephew keeps having pumpkin patch
parties!
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