Perusing Pumpkins at the Patch

The farm has three muddy pumpkin patches to choose from

With Halloween around the corner, this morning we went to Richmond Country Farms to visit the pumpkin patch.

Interesting combo of dinosaurs and pumpkins

It is off the Steveston Highway and at the turnoff there was a massive traffic jam that inched onto the overpass. Also, many other families and schools had the same idea of visiting this farm today so it was packed full of people.

There are tractor-pulled wagons to take visitors to the pumpkin patch, and while you wait, there's a group of musicians to keep you entertained with songs to sing along. And once you get onto the open-air wagon, you have to shout "Yee-haw!" to get it going. 

Another folk guitarist gets the wagon passengers to sing "Old Macdonald Had a Farm" and then we arrive at the entrance to the pumpkin patch -- that includes three robotic dinosaurs! Talk about prehistoric farm...

The pumpkin patch was very muddy -- which was made less slippery with lots of straw strewn all over the grounds. And there were lots and lots of pumpkins to choose from, small to large, pretty much in uniform pumpkin orange.

And then take that pumpkin home to carve. Many do the usual simple face, but at a local supermarket, someone got really creative with a giant pumpkin and carved a grumpy wrinkly face with three eyes!

Check out this pumpkin carving at a supermarket