Your pumpkins may look differently however Papa’s smaller varieties are ready for some pickin’! This palm-sized Orange Mon is standing tall after being picked early this morning. We’ve got three varieties of small pumpkins growing next to the corn maze, and each field is ready to pick…as soon as things dry up from our recent…
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Full-Tilt Pumpkin-ing
It’s Aug. 24, and it’s the last weekend before we are full-tilt pumpkin-ing. We were privileged to provide the location for a 10-mile run to benefit the Wounded Warriors this morning, and we’ll welcome the St. Mary’s Parish family on Sunday for a potluck picnic and mass. Still our all-out preparations don’t begin until Labor…
Twenty-Four Days and Counting…
It’s hard to believe Papa’s Pumpkin Patch will open for the 2013 season in just over three weeks — 24 days to be exact! Monday, Sept. 9 is our opening day and we will be open from 12-7 pm daily until Saturday, Oct. 19. This past week we hosted 50+ volunteers for the United Day…
Papa’s Most Frequently Asked Question in the ‘Off Season” Is…
We hear it a lot during the pumpkin patch season, and it seems whenever we run into folks from November through August, it’s our most frequently asked question. It’s also one we enjoy answering. When do you start planning for next season? The short answer is that we never really stop planning for the next…
Mrs. P Is Ready to Schedule Your Group at Papa’s!
Forty-five days from now Papa’s Pumpkin Patch will open for the 2013 season, and Mrs. P is ready to schedule groups now! (That’s her in the photo with her favorite bud, Sandy. Most of the kids visiting Papa’s call her Marmaduke.) Mrs. P manages the field trip scheduling from Monday through Friday — in 2012…
A Bounty of Color for Mrs. P
One of the highlights of summer is all of the gorgeous flowers. They are everywhere — some by our choice and many by nature’s design. There is an amazing patch of flowers at Papa’s that our guests never get to see: it’s Mrs. P’s daisies along the front walk of the big log house at…
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