Pumpkin Patch Festival Opening Soon

The annual Pumpkin Patch Festival at the Nelson Farm, south of Litchfield, will open on September 27th and will continue weekends – and during the MEA break – through October 26th. There will be some special weekend themes, including Grandparents Weekend Sept. 27th & 28th.

Don Nelson says grandparents will get $1 off of their admission when they bring a grandchild the first weekend. He says Bud & Marlys Larsen will be at the farm on October 4th & 5th with fiddle music; Dairy Industry Day is October 5th; and the final weekend – October 25th and 26th will be Military Appreciation weekend so active military members will get $2 off of admission.

Nelson says the pumpkin crop is pretty good even though the excess rain caused some of them to rot, but they planted more than usual this year. He says the corn maze this year will challenge your mind, and he had to put an electric fence around it this year to keep the deer out.

Nelson says there are 4 trebuchets on the farm – one which launches marbles, one that fires golf balls and two that send different sized pumpkins into the air. He says there are all kinds of other activities, foods and more and you can go to nelsonfarm.com to find more details.

There is more parking at the Nelson Farm this year for the Pumpkin Patch Festival. The farm is 3-and-a-half miles south of Litchfield on County-State-Aid-Highway 1. The Pumpkin Patch Festival is open Saturdays and during the MEA break from 11:01 a.m. to 5:01 p.m. and on Sundays from 12:01-to-5:01 p.m.