#did anyone else do a pumpkin patch field trip as a child?

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Day 79

When I was in elementary school, my class would visit the pumpkin patch every year from perhaps Kindergarten to Grade 3 or 4. I can’t quite remember because it was one of those events that you did every single year, so it stopped being overly memorable, even though it was a unique event in your life.

It’s like trying to remember all the Christmases you’ve ever had, or Halloweens for that matter.

Anyways, we visited the pumpkin patch every year when I was elementary school, and this wasn’t just, visit and see a pumpkin patch. There was a tradition. See, I grew up in a rural neighbourhood, so we were closer to farms than we were to the city. Though… the city (or rather cities because there are two of them stuck together like conjoined twins) has expanded over the years. It’s quite possible now, the city is much closer than it was when I was a child.

But anyways that’s nitpicking details, the point is, there were a lot of farms, and so Halloween time, when it came to pumpkin patch field trips, had a list of things you would do before you even saw the pumpkin patch. The first was the tractor/hay bale ride around the farm. I don’t remember if they decorated the field the ride was happening in for Halloween but that was a thing we did. Then, there would be a corn maze if there was one on the farm we were visiting, if not I think at one point they let us loose in a barn that just stored hay bales.

Wonderful idea for the kids, parents probably didn’t not appreciate the straw that got into strange places when the child got home.

Only after those specific things were done (if there were other activities I didn’t remember them) did we go to the pumpkin patch and pick out a pumpkin. Honestly, I wonder (because again my memory is fuzzy) if this was the reason why my family had pumpkins to decorate at all, was because I bought a pumpkin home. I doubt it… my parents really leaned into the Western holidays but only for the kids. That’s a story for another time.

Anyways, that’s what little I remember of a Fall tradition, I kind of miss it.

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