Pumpkins
2011 looks like a great crop and there will be a lot of fun happening!
We will be open weekends in October only with all our activities - weather permitting of course- at 2133 Mt. Pleasant Rd. in Chesapeake. Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 11-5. Later in the month we will be open weekday hours for pumpkins only. Please follow us on Facebook for the most up to date information. We are not scary. We're a fall harvest good ol'days farm.
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LLlLLLLLLLthe time for cool weather, heading back to school, football and of course PUMPKINS!
se big and little pumpkins. Pumpkins are not the easiest thing to grow here - they do not like a lot of rain and humidity. Whole crops have been lost to hurricane damage. We've been growing pumpkins since the mid-90's and have seen a lot of smiles when the perfect pumpkin has been found!
U - P I C K P U M P K I N S
Of course! We have a nice crop of pumpkins, ripe and ready for picking.
You may exchange your car keys for a pair of pumpkin cutters ("pruning shears"
in all months except October) and cut your own pumpkins right off the vine!
kins at 2133 Mt. Pleasant Rd in Chesapeake . We will be open weekends in October 2010.There is nothing liting up your pumpkin in the field where it is grown and cutting it off the vine. That is the old fashioned best way and it is even morun when you go on a horse drawn hayride. This is a non-commercial, non-scary family fun day. Please read our update below for details.
are some pictures of a the team waiting to give you a ride.
H O R S E - D R A W N H A Y R I D E S
Gene Carter is back this fall with his team of Belgian draft horses for
horse-drawn hayrides--always popular with folks of all
ages. Gene's hayrides are a real learning experience, too, as he tells all
about his horses, what and how much they eat, how they learn to work, etc.
2010 Pumpkin Weekends on the Farm
U - S H E L L P O P C O R N
Again this year is our home-grown popcorn. Yes, we grew popcorn this summer at our home farm in Pungo! Shell-your-own with our antique hand-cranked corn sheller. Take a jar home and pop it the old-fashioned way--in a pot on the stove!
Our corn sheller has no identifying marks, however Jimmy Page, the proprietor of a welding and machine shop down the road who grew up in Southwest Virginia using hand-cranked corn shellers, thinks it is a McCormick model made late in the nineteenth century. I guess that makes our corn sheller...hmmm...around 110 years old, plus or minus.
P I E P U M P K I N S
Every year we are asked about pie pumpkins for baking.
We grew some "Small Sugar" pumpkins (also called "New England Sugar Pies"). Better than regular "little" pumpkins, these deep orange, slightly flattened pumpkins have a high quality flesh and are great for pies and canning. Get a few of our home-grown pie pumpkins and see what a real home-made pumpkin pie is all about!
F A L L D E C O R A T I N G N E C E S S I T I E S
We will have strawbales, corn stalks,
Indian corn bunches, mini-white pumpkins, and gourds.
our fall decorating with our home-grown Indian corn, corn stalks, and hay bales--all grown at our
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