Pumpkin Patch for Food Bank Farm

10/12/2025

OPEN
Sunday, Oct 12
Noon - 7pm

10/11/2025

Opens at NOON.

10/11/2025

Pumpkin Patch opens at NOON today

09/25/2025

Ornamental corn is harvested and drying for the Pumpkin Patch

Thanks to the littles from Bellevue Christian School Mack Elementary for harvesting the Painted Mountain Corn. At first they balked at the prospect of "spiders", but soon they were enthusiastically rummaging through the corn plot like little locusts. Amazingly they harvested about a ton of corn from this small plot.

Then came the work. Knowing that vermin would want to eat this corn, we had no rat or bird proof place on the farm where we could store and dry the corn. So we loaded all into Carl's truck and trailer and hauled it to the church where we set it up, some in my office, some in the parish hall, with fans to dry it.

09/22/2025

The Pumpkin Patch will open Saturday, October 11.

06/24/2025

Squash and Pumpkin field transplanted on June 23. There's a row of something every 6 feet. Zuchinni, Butternut, Acorn, Delicata, Gourds, Pie Pumpkins, and the unbelievable jack-o-lanterns from the Outstanding Seed Company in PA.

06/24/2025

The pumpkin patch is planted! It is a glorious mix of sizes and colors, and warts and wings, of 3,500 gourds and pumpkins, with perfect weather and field conditions. Here we go!

06/14/2025

Ornamental corn patch is transplanted and growing for the 2025 Pumpkin Patch.

Thanks to volunteers from Symmetra, who transplanted this very tidy patch of Painted Mountain ornamental corn, and thanks to Bob Ricci of Bob's Corn Maze and Pumpkin Farm for laying down the fertilizer strips with his precision corn planter.

05/07/2024

May 1, the giant pumpkin starts went into the ground.