Minonk Pumpkin Patch in the Park

09/21/2025

Pick 3 Raffle tickets available! Contact Amanda Whited or Hollie Hartzler Kearfott to get yours!

09/10/2025

We are once again joining with the Joey Buis Memorial Fund to raise money for 2 great causes! Join us September 28th!!!

09/24/2021

08/19/2021

From the Joey Buis Memorial Fundraising page:

We are celebrating what would have been Joey's 24th Birthday with a party in the park this year! We have joined forces with the 12th annual Pumpkin Patch to bring you all the amazing things to one location on the same day! We will be creating an event with all the details nailed down in the near future.
Please contact: Amanda Whited 309-645-1637 or via messenger for raffle/bake sale donations.
Contact Hollie Kearfott 309-242-2507 for Craft/Vendor information.
We look forward to spending the day with you!

09/30/2019

What can I say to the greatest volunteers in the world, but THANK YOU! You all made this event a wonderful success, despite a couple of storms along the way.

Thanks to my dad, Ted Hartzler, for going to pick up all our pumpkins.

Thanks to the rest of my family, who stepped up to make the delicious apple crisp: Donna Hartzler, Beth Hartzler, and Tina Dunning.

Thanks to St. Patrick's Church and John Brett Glowacki for allowing us to use their commercial kitchen when St. Paul's had an unfortunate flooding incident.

Thanks to Minonk Chocolate Company and the City of Minonk for allowing us to use the parking lots uptown when the park got flooded.

Thanks to my money collectors and food servers: Heather Payton, Billie Stokowski, Liv Denk, Amanda Whited, Donna Hartzler, Sonja Frei, and Gwyneth Frei (on her birthday weekend!).

Thanks to our pumpkin painting crew: Kailynne and Jono Stears.

Thanks to our raffle coordinator: Julie and Hannah Redenius.

Thanks to our fall photographer: Janet Redenius.

Thanks to the Fieldcrest art guild for the face painting.

Thanks to my wonderful vendors for sticking it out through the rain with me.

And, last, but not least, thanks to my husband, Brad Kearfott, for being my runner today: delivering all sorts of stuff and packing it back up.

This event was definitely the highlight of the weekend. Got soaking wet packing up, but I still had a great time! Please consider joining our team for next year's events!