The pumpkin patch. The glorious introduction to the pumpkin season. David and I usually frequent Apple Annie’s Pumpkin Patch in Willcox, AZ. But this year, now being based in my hometown of Wickenburg, AZ, we were closer to Mortimer Farms outside of Prescott, AZ in a teeny weeny rural town of Dewey.
It was SO DAMN WINDY. But other than that, totally charming, totally adorable, totally quaint. All of the basic white broad’s requirements for a PUMPKIN PATCH.
Mortimer Farms had some cuuuuuuute little rustic buildings, and it was a super kid oriented event with all of these farm equipment turned playground rides, pony rides, face painting and, my favorite, giant tractor tire swings. Yes, my ovaries kind of screamed at all of the little cute kid activities.
Scarecrow on stilts? Like, COME ON!
Ughh. Word must be said about my new linen overalls that I thought looked SO CUTE on me LOL. Yeah…not so much. Meh, you win some, you lose some. Sadly, I didn’t achieve that cute-outfit-at-the-pumpkin-patch status this year.
This chicken coop! DEAD! Hey Chicks! The Scrambled Inn? How damn adorable can you possibly be?
The piece of hay sticking out of David’s mouth LOL. Just a natural down home farm boy, that man.
Something must be said about these PIES. I brought home an apple pie. Ugh. Utterly delicious and I’m not always a big fan of apple pie? Seriously tempted to randomly swing by the farm, you know, an hour and a half away from my house, just to pick up some apple pies for Thanksgiving LOL.
These little farm rides (not sure what you would call these, honestly) were pretty damn cute, and they took us out to the pumpkin fields and the corn maze.
We also discovered that Mortimer Farms allows you to do the corn maze at night ?!?! Next year’s bucket list for sure. I feel like a corn field at night is the quintessential October adventure.
Corny couple photo:)
Me with my niece and sisters 🙂
It’s corn! David loved that they had a sweet corn stand right by the corn maze, selling hot corn on the cob picked from the same field as the corn maze.
Mortimer Farms was beyond adorable. But we were honestly a tad disappointed in the pumpkin patch. There weren’t many pumpkins in the field and we were there on the opening day. They did have some in the country store, and I know a lot of pumpkin patches will only sell pre-picked pumpkins, but David and I are so used to Apple Annies where you go into the field with a wheelbarrow and clippers and find our big ole pumpkins out in the field.
We honestly ended up buying our pumpkins at Trader Joes afterwards. However, my brother Darren told us they went the year previously and said that their fields were full of pumpkins so he thinks it may not have been a good year for pumpkins this year. So that was the ONLY downside.
Poor David–out there in his Snoopy Great Pumpkin Believer shirt, standing out in the field, looking for his Great Pumpkin LOL.
Big pumpkins in the field or not, Mortimer Farms was dreamy, their apple pie dreamier.
XOXO
Courtney
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