We go to Farmer John’s Pumpkins for the most part. He has great eating-pumpkins for making pies and he’s really nice to the kids. His wife gives great advice for cooking the various varieties. I also like supporting someone who is serving our community on the city council.
One year we decided we needed one of his pie pumpkins after Halloween and he had already closed up his shop. I called him on the phone and he told me to just go in, get what I wanted and leave a couple dollars stuck in the door of his shop. He saved my bacon because that second pumpkin was supposed to go to my mother-in-law and I had forgotten to buy it before Halloween. They sell a pumpkin called a cherry blossom or apple blossom or something like that, it makes a fantastic pie.
We used to go to Arrata’s but then they started charging for more and more so we stopped going there.
The kids like Little Creek Pumpkins, over on Verde Road, which they’ve gone to with their preschool. They have a good petting area and hay pyramid to climb on and plenty of room to run wild.
