The pumpkin patch is taking a rest.

For a run of autumns, fall on the homestead meant pumpkins. Families walked out along the vines to pick their own, got lost in the corn maze, climbed the hay bales and took the long way back to the car.

We are not running the pumpkin patch or the corn maze right now. The field is still here, and so is the family that planted it.

We would like to bring it back. If we do, this page and our email list will hear about it first.

Long irrigated field rows on the homestead along Alameda Avenue — The field along Alameda, planted in rows

A child sitting on a stack of hay bales on the farm in fall — Fall on the farm

What the patch was

Pick-your-own pumpkins, a corn maze and hay bales.

A working field in the middle of Lakewood, a short drive for most of the city and a long way from a grocery store bin. Kids found their own pumpkin on the vine; parents found out how big a corn maze feels from the inside.

In the meantime, the Christmas tree lot opens Black Friday, Nov 27.

The pumpkin patch is taking a rest.

Pick-your-own pumpkins, a corn maze and hay bales.

Want to hear if it comes back?