"The pumpkin lies yellow beneath the cold skies,”
Walt Mason gasped.
"It's luscious and mellow and ready for pies."
The question is: how can your Halloween or Christmas season be complete without your posthumous pumpkin? In fact, getting your squash in the traditional way is, let’s be honest, boring. To make this already celebrated tradition even more fun, I want to show you where you can pick your pumpkin as the moon watches on. Patch MK is an award-winning pumpkin farm in Buckinghamshire. So, picking your pumpkins here is an experience worth reliving even after the first visit with friends and family.
You will find the patch on a family farm close to Milton Keynes at The Patch Farm, Stratford Road, Northants, MK19 6DG. To start with, it may interest you to know that this location has over 61 varieties of pumpkins to choose from. That way, you never tire of seeing these beauties in their differing guises, shapes and colours. In total, the farm has well over 500,000 pumpkins that you can pick at your will.
Hold your horses, there’s more!
Picking pumpkins at the Patch MK offers one of the most diverse selections in the UK. An added extra spin is pumpkin picking with your loved ones on this farm. The spin is that you can do that at the end of the day. Busy families and children still have the opportunity of pumpkin-picking pleasure.
All of you, whenever you choose to visit, have access to unique games and activities for all the family. One of the features of the patch is the barrel train ride. You and your visiting mates can even paint your faces in assorted colours and styles. But that is only the beginning of the merriment. You can notch up your family fun on this farm to the next level with hand-crafted photo ops.
There are a multitude of gigantic photo ops on the patch. Hence, it's not a surprise that tickets to the patch have consistently sold out for the last 5 years. The patch was designed with emphasis on a quality family experience. Visitors can have a whale of a time snapping pics on the devil's throne, sitting in the giant pumpkin or posing with the witches' broom.
But what is quality family time without refreshments? The Patch MK has you covered on scintillating food and drinks. From freshly prepared barista coffee, cake and hot chocolate, with 2023 heralding marshmallow toasting to raise the bar of excellence.
This night-time popular, posthumous pumpkin-picking party is worth grabbing with both hands. It starts at 6 p.m. and finishes at 9:30 p.m. Tickets cost only £8.50 per person. However, you have to pre-book your entry.
If you're ever wondering what to wear, just be a pumpkin and you’re good to go.
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