Tate Farms Cotton Pickin' Pumpkins October 1, 2008

Tate Farms is a hands-on farm learning experience for private groups such as daycares, public and private school groups, and home-schooled groups. Each year our tour features an agricultural learning experience about one of the crops we grow: Pumpkins, Cotton, Wheat, Soybeans, Corn, Honey Bees. We feature PRIVATE guided school group tours M-F from 9-2, for those with advance reservations. M-F 2-6, and Saturday 9-6 we are open to the public, no reservations required. We are closed on Sundays. We grow our own products, No baiting our fields! We grow a wide variety of pumpkins, including but not limited to the following: White (Caspar, Baby Boo), Green (Jharadelle), Buff (Long Island Cheese) and the typical bright orange jack-o-lanterns. We grow our pumpkins from palm size to Large Atlantic Dill's. We sell corn shocks, gourds (large and small), mums and wheat straw. We have a Country store featuring a huge variety of decorative items, both Halloween and Fall, food items, decorative gift items, John Deere and Agriculture related items. Teachers love our traditional tour which includes hay ride to pumpkin field, pumpkin, corn crib, hay maze, hands-on and educational activity, and a visit to the animals. Our afternoon and Saturdays feature the corn themed barrel train ride, animals to pet and play with, Barnyard theme playground and our new hay barn with turbo tube slides from the hayloft and another corn crib, cotton jump, gourd gun and our Entertainment Barn with kitchen. We've just completed a new covered pavilion for your dining comfort. We'll have hotdogs, hamburgers, chicken fingers, BBQ sandwiches, fresh squeezed lemonade, pintos and cornbread with a slice of onion, soup of the day and fries just to name a few. We also have slushies, funnel cakes, fudge puppies and cotton candy. Try a piece of our homemade pumpkin pie - made fresh daily with Tate Farms pumpkins from our field! Admission is 8.00 per person ages 2 and above. We do sell season passes, check our website for additional details.
Our hours are Monday - Friday 2:00-6:00 and Saturday 9:00-6:00, closed on Sunday.

Official Website: http://www.tatefarmspumpkins.com