Hunter Farms Pumpkin Patch

(written on 7.27.18)

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HUNTER FARMS PUMPKIN PATCH 

Hunter Farms is a family owned and run working farm that has been in operation since 1889.

You can check out HUNTER FARMS <--- via their website. 

When we go there, we ended up in one of the overflow parking areas (right in front of the corn maze) ... Nathan found a leaf the size of his HEAD!  ha ha ha ha .. okay ... it was BIGGER than his head. 

Nana stepped up to the jailer and Bubba observed the transaction to make sure that neither party was taking advantage of the other ...  we went to check out the hay rides first, out to the pumpkin patch, which is a little bit on the edge of at least one part of the farm (I'm sure it's a lot bigger than what we see.)

Hanging out on some pumpkins while we're in line...

We ended up on the prison cart ... I mean the jailbird box....  shoooo ...  we were naughty....

We did see this barn in the distance and I thought it was pretty, and even caught a glimpse of a few cows!  Cows in three shades even!!  Hopefully that little one makes good chocolate milk someday!  Then there is the pumpkin flower and the leaves are changin' a little.

We made it to the pumpkin patch, luckily we got released for good behavior...

After deciding that there were better pumpkins already picked and in the store/front of the farm...  we decided to hitch a ride back.  Most the pumpkins still out in the patch had been out in the elements too long or smashed or stomped on ...

After we got dropped off from coming back from the patch ...  we had fun looking at all the gourds ...

FACT:
Pumpkins, squash and gourds are members of the enormously diverse Cucurbitaceae family, which contains more than 100 genera and over 700 species. They have been providing mankind with food and utilitarian objects since before recorded history. Various members of the genus Cucurbita are known as squash or gourds.
(taken from HERE)

Walking around we also happened to stumble on some animals... 

We also found an indoor hay bale maze that the three little kids had a lot of fun in.  At one point we lost Nathan, Dad had to go in after him...

The boys were all pretty tired when we were done.

The bottom picture was the arm band they were using for those who paid ...  Pretty cool!  Check out their PUMPKIN PATCH PAGE .... they are open from October 1 to October 31!

THIS IS SOMETHING WE WOULD RECOMMEND AND WE WOULD DEFINITELY GO HERE AGAIN (and we do).