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Time to start thinking about pumpkins
Posted by: Meg Thilmony
Monday, September 28, 2009 3:54 PM
Where do you buy pumpkins?
Do you choose convenience (and sometimes price) over experience and pick them up at the grocery store? Or would you rather trek out into a dusty field and choose your own perfect specimen?
I admit, I'm a member of the latter camp. I prefer picking out the squattest, wartiest pumpkin I can. Its size generally corelates with the distance I have to carry it back to check out, but I don't care.
Local blog Central Illinois Life wrote this entry a couple years ago about local pumpkin patches. And you can find patches using this Web site (although it doesn't include every patch).
Pumpkin shopping is yearly tradition I want to write about during my first few weeks as a features reporter at The News-Gazette. Leave a comment about where you shop for pumpkins, and we might be able to use that information in the paper in coming weeks.
Comments
Great to see you blogging again!! My favorite is Rombach Farms Pumpkin Patch in Chesterfield, MO (18639 Olive St. Rd. 636-532-7265) You can pick from the patch or drag a wagon/cart way out into one of several fields. Hay, hot chocolate, witches, a huge REAL pumpkin mountain. The bomb in pumpkins! My kids love it.
Posted by cherylan on September 28, 2009 at 4:48 PM
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