Pumpkin Festival
Open 10am – 4pm Tuesday – Sunday
7 days a week during the North Yorkshire school holidays . Make wonderful memories at the pumpkin patch while picking your perfect pumpkin .
As well as orange we have , white , green , blue ,pink and multi coloured . Mini munchkin squashes and squashes great for cooking . Free entry to the patch just pay for what you pick .
Pumpkins range from £1 – £12
Photo opportunities. Don’t forget your wellies the patch can get muddy .
30th September – 31st October 2023. Open 10am – 5pm.
The Castle Howard Garden Centre Pumpkin Patch is back for the third year running! Explore the patch and choose your perfect pumpkin. Whether small, medium, or large, we’ve got varying sizes and colours for carving, decorating and making the most of the spooky season! Head to the Garden Centre when you arrive and follow the signs for PYO pumpkins.
Pumpkin picking at Horsforth PYO – opening on Saturday 30th October with dates throughout October right up to Halloween. With over 70 thousand pumpkins planted this year and lots of different varieties to choose from, pick your pumpkins from the field they were grown in. Whether you wish your pumpkin mini, small or even jumbo, warty, white, pink, blue, yellow or orange of course, the choice is yours.
The Kemp family have been farming in Horsforth for over 70 years. Come along to their pick your own and join in the Halloween fun – the tractor and trailer ride will take you down to the picking fields to start your pumpkin adventure. Pick up a wheelbarrow and off you go. There are lots of Halloween photo opportunities around the farm to add to the occasion. Afterwards our talented face painters are ready to transform you (for an additional cost) into your Halloween favourite. Our pop-up café will also be open to provide refreshments.
Online booking is required with all dates, opening hours and prices detailed on the ticketing site at https://kemps.merlintickets.co.uk. Ticket prices include car parking, entrance and the tractor and trailer ride.
Pumpkin Fest 2023 @ SPILMANS
There is a pumpkin picking event to suit everyone this autumn at Spilman’s Farm. For families who like all the fun of the full festival, there are more activities and events than ever before! Opens 30th September 2023!
Late Night picking is available on certain dates – picking by twilight and with live music and a bar, this is a perfect event for families with older children or couples.
The Back to Basics event is a special event for those who like the charm of Spilmans Farm without all the activities. This is a quieter event for those wishing to just enjoy picking in the patch!
There’s more varieties of pumpkins than ever at Yorkshire Pumpkins this year – new for this year are our beautiful pink pumpkins! Whether you’re after a ginormous orange pumpkin to carve, a delicious eating pumpkin to cook with, or a beautiful candle pumpkin to decorate enjoy wandering through the pumpkin patch and finding your perfect pumpkin.
We grow all our pumpkins here on our family farm and farmers David and Rob will be in the field to answer all your questions about how we grow them!
We’ll also have fun for all the family – from our bale mountain and maze for the bigger kids, to the toy tractors and pumpkin wash for the smaller ones.
Our pop up pumpkin café will be back, as well as the delicious Stable Pizza Co.
Please book your tickets in advance online, tickets are £1.50 per person and include all activities. Everyone needs a ticket except babes in arms.
Yorkshire Pumpkins is open 7th & 8th October, 14th & 15th October, 21st & 22nd October then every day 28th-31st October from 10am to 4pm. New for this year are our after school sessions on 26th & 27th October when we’re open from 11am to 5pm!
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