We try to go to a different Pumpkin Patch every year- where is your local fave?
Our favorite pumpkin patch is Johnson Farms at 177th and Holmes in KCMO. They do birthday parties, hayrides out to the pumpkin fields, and they have live animals for the kids to look at. This year they have added pony rides! They also have a large slide for the kids (and big kids!), and a maze.
Their website is www.johnsonfarms.net .
L.
This year we plan on going to the big one in Gardner. They also have a petting zoo there, and this year there will be 2 white geese in the petting zoo. We hatched these geese out at our house last spring as part of a homeschool science project, and we raised them until they about 2 months old. Then we found the very kind gentleman who runs that petting zoo who was willing to take them. The last I talked to him - at the Johnson County Fair - they were still imprinted on humans and wouldn't go with the other geese. They are very sweet, and one will slightly nibble on your finger, but neither of them bite. So if you go to the pumpkin patch in Gardner, be sure to say hi to Jimmy and Bobby.
we really enjoyed Powell Pumpkin Patch last year, has hayrides, a 'real' patch to pick your own -- in Louisburg.
Go to the one in Gardner. Amy L on here is planning one this month as a playgroup.
I am too new to the area to have a favorite, but I will tell you that last week we went to Vaughn's and Big Red Barn (right across the street from Vaughn's - both are on HI 273 just south of Weston), and saw their pumpkin patches (hoping to pick apples, but none left on the trees - pumkins were the alternative activity available). Do not go to Vaughn's. It is poorly tended, without open dirt paths between the vines, so that everyone who went in came out scratched and itchy. On the other hand, the patch at the Barn was very well-kept. In both cases, however, the pumpkins weren't ready yet. Hopefully they'll all be orange in a couple of weeks.
