Peter peter pumpkin eater
Filed Under Events, Places | October 19, 2007
It may have been years since you’ve visited a pumpkin patch, but once you have kids it’s a de rigueur fall event and a fun way to fill a morning. While there’s no dearth of pumpkin patches around town, one of our favourites is the Westham Island Herb Farm. The farm’s annual pumpkin patch offers pumpkins of all shapes and sizes and in a range of colours including untraditional white, grey, red and variegated varieties. At the farm you can either grab a wheel barrow and pick your own, or choose a pre-harvested beauty.
Ladner’s self-dubbed “Halloween Headquarters” also offers other seasonal delights including a scarecrow collection that incorporates pumpkins, gourds, farm products and implements, over 150 hand-carved pumpkins and a haunted converted quonset hot house.
You can go whole hog and stock up on ornamental gourds, cornstalks, and hay bales. But even better is the fresh farm produce on offer, in stock now is everything from apples to zucchini including home made jellies, BC pears, leeks, potatoes and fresh herbs.
Once you’ve stocked up on pumpkins and produce, why not head down the road to the Reifel Bird Sanctuary? Here nearly 300 hectares of managed wetlands, natural marshes and low dikes offers millions of birds feeding and resting areas during their annual migration along the Pacific Coast. The fall is a great time to view (and even feed) ducks, geese and swans as they rest up for their journeys.
You can be out and back again in time for nap. And while your tired tots sleep why not whip up a batch of pumpkin soup that you can serve for dinner in a small hollowed out pumpkin…or maybe just have a nap as well.
Westham Island Herb Farm: www.westhamislandherb.ca
Reifel Bird Sanctuary: www.reifelbirdsanctuary.com
A great listing of BC Pumpkin Patches: www.pumpkinpatchesandmore.org
And we just found out about a great craft market this Saturday. Check out Blim’s Fall Market where you can start stocking up for Christmas with goodies ranging from fun plushies from Lemonade to BuenoStyle’s cheeky organic cotton undies. Saturday, October 20th, Noon – 5 pm, 197 East 17th Ave. (@ Main St.)
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