Pick Your Own pumpkin farms in Kent for Halloween and half term 2016
BELUNCLE FARM, HOO
Organisers have planted twice as many pumpkins this year and increased their fleet of wheelbarrows to cope with demand as they expect more than 40,000 people. The Batchelor family has been opening the 40-acre working farm for the past six years for the PYO event. Proceeds are donated to Crohn’s and Colitis UK as Mark and Verity Batchelor’s eldest son Luke has Crohn’s disease. Pumpkins cost between £1 and £4. See pyopumpkins.com
CHILTON MANOR FARM, SITTINGBOURNE
The family farm and shop has PYO pumpkins every day except Mondays from 10am. For details visit head to the farm in Highsted Road, Sittingbourne, ME9 0AA or visitchiltonmanorfarm.co.uk
FOUR WINDS FARM, BIDBOROUGH
Pick Your Own pumpkin days will be on Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29 – and the Sunday if there are enough left. Head to the farm in Penshurst Road, Bidborough, near Tunbridge Wells, call 07961 893682 or visit facebook.com/farmfourwinds for details.
MILEBUSH FARM, WEST FARLEIGH
Open daily from 9am to 5pm, with refreshments at weekends, the farm in Shingle Barn Lane, West Farleigh, has started PYO pumpkins this year. Head to the farm in West Farleigh near Maidstone, ME15 0PN, call 07971 964509 or visit facebook.com/pickyourownmilebushfarm for details.
PUMPKIN MOON, BOXLEY, MAIDSTONE
Run by Charlie Eckley, Pumpkin Moon at Boarley Farm is a family day out where visitors can see what a working farm looks like and choose from 13 different varieties of pumpkins and squashes. Visitors get a wheelbarrow to load up their pumpkins, with prices up to £5 and 10% of profits will go to the Heart of Kent Hospice and the British Heart Foundation. It is open from now until Sunday, October 30. For details visit pumpkinmoon.uk
SEVINGTON, NEAR ASHFORD
The family-owned farm run by Jake and Mark Thompson, which will grow more than a million pumpkins for supermarkets this year, will be open to pumpkin pickers from Saturday, October 22, to Sunday, October 30, in the field at Cheeseman’s Green Lane, Sevington, TN25 7HX. Pumpkins range in price according to size, starting from £1. The venture raised more than £5,000 for charities last year and will this year make a donation to Dover’s Cherished Gowns UK, which provides clothing for stillborn babies or who have died shortly after. Children will also have the opportunity to meet Cinderella on Wednesday, October 26, and Thursday, October 27, to help pick a pumpkin to turn into a carriage. Visitors are advised to wear wellies and gloves. Dogs are not permitted. For details go to danmackelden.co.uk/pickyourownpumpkin
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