There’s something special about picking out your own pumpkin, choosing it from all the others at the pumpkin patch and bringing it home to live with you (or outside your house) until the end of Halloween. I always feel a little attached to the pumpkin I take home. As a kid, I used to even name them.
Here’s our first annual guide to the best pumpkin patches in the region.
Harvest Moon Farm & Orchard
Pumpkin Patch Opens: It’s open now!
What to Expect: Harvest Moon Farm’s fall festival started on Sept 8 and continues every weekend through out the season. Not only can you pick your own pumpkins, but there will be face painting, pony rides (starting Sept 23), a live band, a bounce house and animals like baby goats, baby alpacas, and donkeys. Their country store sells fresh eggs from their farm, their own grass-fed beef, produce, local honey, local dairy products, maple syrup, cider doughnuts, fresh baked pies, homemade fudge and Green Mountain Coffee. Harvest Moon Farm is family owned and operated. You can also pick apples and pumpkins during the week and visit their store.
130 Hardscrabble Road, North Salem; 914-485-1210. Open Monday through Friday 10am to 5pm, Weekends from 10am from 5pm
Stuart’s Farm
Pumpkin Patch Opens: It’s open now!
What to Expect: With over 200 acres of apple orchards, pumpkin fields and vegetable crops, it’s an ideal setting to pick pumpkins. Plus, it’s a small family-run farm, so they’re incredibly welcoming. Stuart’s has a bakery, farm stand and hayrides on the weekend. The hayrides take you up a hill offering passengers wide open views of Connecticut. Once the leaves turn, the leaves will be spectacular.
Fun fact: Stuart’s farm is the oldest apple orchard in Westchester County.
62 Granite Springs Rd, Granite Springs; 914-245-2784. Open 7 days a week from 9am to 6pm
Wilkens Fruit and Fir Farm
Pumpkin Patch Opens: the first week in October
What to Expect: Spend the day at Wilkens Farm picking pumpkins and enjoying their country inspired markets. Kids will love the old-fashioned candy store and moms can pick up gifts at the Appleseed Gift Shop. You’ll find also find a farm stand, apple cider, fresh baked pies, apple-cider doughnuts and lunch foods like hot dogs and other fun snacks.
1335 White Hill Road, Yorktown Heights; 914-245-5111. Open 7 days a week from 10am to 5pm
Outhouse Orchards
Pumpkin Patch Opens: September 22
What to Expect: Outhouse Orchards is a family owned and operated orchard that has been a favorite to many Westchester residents for years. Enjoy pumpkin picking, a corn maze, hay rides all week long and food vendors on the weekends.
139 Hard Scrabbleroad, North Salem; 914-277-3188. Open weekends from 9am to 5pm; weekdays from 10am to 5pm
Muscoot Farm
Pumpkin Patch Opens: It’s open for two days, October 7 and 8 from 12pm to 3pm
What to Expect: Muscoot Farm offers two days of pumpkin picking and hay rides as the only fundraiser for the Friends of Muscoot. Pick out a pumpkin and meet all the animals: cows, horses, pigs, chickens and goats. Muscoot Farm is owned by Westchester County Parks.
One and half miles south of the intersection between Route 35 and Route 100, in Somers on Route 100; (914) 864-7282.
For more fall fun check out Fall Festivals 2012 in Westchester County and Apple Picking in Westchester 2012.
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We have been going to Barton Orchards for the past few years and really like it. You have to pay for admission but it is very kid/family friendly and lots of fun. http://www.bartonorchards.com/index.html