Pumpkin Patch

Our traditional fall-time adventure to the pumpkin patch.  👍🏻🎃

Pumpkin Patching 2015 - Treehouse Nursery

The weekend before Halloween we went to a local pumpkin patch called The Treehouse Nursery. It was a fun family owned farm. How fun would it be to own and run a pumpkin patch? I think it's my calling in life... that or a Christmas tree farm... or a sheep farm? :)

E.Z. Orchards

A couple days before Halloween we took Maisie to another local pumpkin patch to pick out a few more pumpkins to carve. It was supposed to rain, but lucky for us the weather men were wrong (which surprisingly happens often enough despite the consistant gloomy weather here). We jumped on the opportunity of the somewhat sunny weather and let Maisie explore the farm.

A few of Maisie's favorite things about the pumpkin patch:

1) Big pumpkins and baby pumpkins. Ok, maybe just pumpkins in general.

2) The rubber ducky race.

3) The baby calf and snorting/squealing piglets.

4) Opening an ear of corn- removing the husk and finding out what was inside. She's on a corn kick as of lately.

5) Warm pumpkin spice doughnuts and fresh apple cider. Enough said right?

Bauman Farms Pumpkin Patch

On one of the days where it wasn't a torrential downpour outside, we seized the somewhat sunny weather and made our way to the pumpkin patch. Maisie had been asking about it for weeks and was so excited to pick out a pumpkin. Oh and take a spin on the tractor for the hay ride (she loved it of course). Maisie went without a nap that day so she started to get pretty cranky and demanding towards the end, so it was a fairly short trip, but still fun nonetheless.

Maisie made friends with the ducks and geese (surprise, surprise right?) and also fed the goats and sheep. I was happy to see she wasn't as leery of the barnyard animals as she was last trip. 

Other highlights? The hazelnut house- a little wooden house filled with hazelnuts that kids can jump in. Also the corn box, same concept as the hazelnut house, but with corn. Maisie was in sensory-play heaven.

She's been asking about going back, but I think we need to hit our other favorite pumpkin patches around Portland before Halloween. Hopefully the weather allows it!