10.09.2011 Ardenwood Farm Fall Harvest Festival

We were at first going to go to Half Moon bay to see the pumpkins, but since the pumpkin festival was next weekend, we went to Ardenwood Farm instead.  It was our first time there and were pleasantly surprised at how much fun it is.  It was full of kids from young to old, with numbers easily in the hundreds, perhaps into the several thousands.  But it's a big place so it didn't feel that crowded at all.  The biggest attraction this weekend were the pumpkin fields and the corn picking.  As you can see from the photos below, there were thousands of pumpkins to pick from (they even supply the wheel barrels and kiddie pull carts), a pyramid made of straw bales, a maze made of the same, and lots of corn to pick.  The corn were of two types: indian and popcorn.  The indian corn is just for decoration (though I suppose you could grind it down to cornmeal if you had the machinery), and the popcorn corn could be popped once they've dried (6-8 weeks from now).  There were old fashion tractors that Evan really liked, people in colonial times apparel, corn husk doll workshops, magic shows, etc.  Oh, and train and tractor rides which we didn't do this time.  It's a fun place and we're likely to come back in the future.