Pumpkin Patch!

Love the place we found this year! A student told me about it and I'm so glad we went. It's called Bushue's Family Farm and it's located out in Boring, off Orient drive and Bluff road. There are pre-picked pumpkins, or you can go out in the field and pick your own. Hannah and Noah both liked petting the goats and sheep and checking out the little pigs and chickens. I saw ducks on the little pond when we went on our cow-train ride (see pic). They also do hay rides and apparently have a hay tunnel/maze in the barn too, although we didn't check that out since Hannah and Noah are a still a little small and Hannah is not a big fan of the dark right now.

What was most refreshing, though, is that it is simply a small, family run farm. The mom was feeding the sheep and goats when we got there, the dad and his sons were getting the tractors ready for hay rides, letting the pigs out, playing with the big old black lab roaming around. No overt commercialism, no overpriced snacks, no crazy crowds and bustle. Just a simple, fun spot. It costs a couple bucks for the rides and/or the maze, and of course the pumpkins and other fall squash and veggies and flowers are priced accordingly. But the rain held off for us, the kids had fun and we made off with 4 sweet pumpkins to carve-- it was, without a doubt, 20 bucks well spent.