At the weekend we headed to Eastfield Farm in Tickhill, Doncaster to pick some pumpkins! Pumpkin picking is one of my favourite things to do in autumn and I’m going to keep dragging the kids along with me for as long as I can, even if they don’t want to!
We’ve been to Eastfield Farm before but for strawberries and sunflowers, not pumpkins. I would highly recommend visiting in summer by the way, the sunflowers are just beautiful and a great photo opp! The farm is very easy to find, off the M18. Just 40 minutes from us in north Sheffield.
Usually we go to Farmer Copleys in Pontefract for pumpkins, which is great but it was fully booked this year. That’s the problems with Farmer Copleys, it is so popular it gets booked up very quickly, plus you have to pay to get in which isn’t the case with Eastfield Farm. There’s no booking required and it’s free to park and get in.
The farm is open every day 10am – 5pm, with last pick at 4:30pm. We arrived at about 3:30pm and had plenty of time to pick our pumpkins. The queues were pretty long when we pulled into the car park but they had completely gone by the time we left, so I would suggest going later in the day if you can.
There is a cafe serving hot chocolate, cakes and spiced pumpkin soup. As well as the farm shop selling fresh fruit, vegetables and other local produce such as jams and chutneys.
As well as pumpkins, there’s also corn available to pick at the farm. Corn is priced at 50p each. So you can get that well known TikTok corn song stuck in your head as you wander around the pumpkin patch…
There’s plenty of cute photo opportunities too, I know you were all wondering! Because who doesn’t love a pumpkin patch photo?
The pumpkin field was actually much bigger than I was expecting it to be, there really is tons of pumpkins and it didn’t look to me like they would run out any time soon. I have read that they planted 100,000 pumpkin plants, over 27 acres! There’s 15 different varieties of pumpkins available including ghost pumpkins (the white ones) and knucklehead pumpkins (the funny looking knobbly ones!).
Prices range from £1 to £12 per pumpkin. To give you a rough idea, we came away with six pumpkins of various sizes and paid £20 all together. Payment is by cash or card. Obviously it’s more expensive than buying them from a supermarket but worth it if you ask me because you’re paying for the experience. My kids absolutely love pumpkin picking and look forward to it every year.
Lastly, wheelbarrows are free to use but do remember to take your cutters with you as these are not available at the farm.
Have you been pumpkin picking yet this year? Did you come away with as many as we did?! Leave me a comment below and let me know.
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