It might have seemed like an ordinary Friday to you, but for nearly 200 area students, today was a day for planting pumpkins at Papa’s Pumpkin Patch! Papa and his team of volunteer retired teachers and the good folks at the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) welcomed children from Washburn Elementary School, Martin Luther Grade School,…

You’ve probably noticed when you visit Papa’s that we love animals and welcome our friends and guests to bring their pets with them. Many of our guests are familiar with Sandy — the big shepherd/dane mix who most children meet when they visit Papa for a fall field trip. Sandy loves to board the school buses…

Full hearts. That’s what Papa and the family have during this Christmas season. We’ve been tremendously blessed in 2015 – wonderful weather, bountiful crops, amazing friends, family and guests to celebrate fall in North Dakota. At this point, we are not planning a polar patch season. While we’ve been gifted a white Christmas, there isn’t…

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25: Papa’s Pumpkin Patch is closed for the 2015 season. It’s been an amazing fall, and we have you to thank. Papa and more than 600 volunteers welcomed a record number of guests and their families. The weather was near perfect, and we all had great fun playing outside, making memories. In the…

Papa’s Pumpkin Patch is open Friday, Oct. 23, from 12-7 pm however, there will be no extra activities open as we planned. We will have concessions available from 12-5 pm. Mother Nature certainly believes we need the moisture and has made most everything slippery and wet. Here’s what is available at Papa’s on Friday: concessions…