Week 42 Oct. 14-20

When Mom and Barb came from Michigan, they brought doughnuts from Anderson's Orchard at our request.  This was great, but made us want to go out and experience the fall orchard/pumkin picking experience ourselves.  Plus, the weather here is some awesome this time of year.  So, we made our way to Beaverdam, VA to visit Ashland Berry Farm.

This is sort of like Anderson's with a lot more people.  (not necessarily better)  The main attraction for the day was picking pumpkins.  They load you on wagons and haul you out to their pumpkin fields about a 5-10 minute tractor ride.  From there they drop you off and you pick your pumpkins.  There was about a 20 minute wait both ways to catch a wagon back. 

 

This place seems to primarily be a greenhouse, which we will probably come back to, but they have it all set up for the Pumpkin Adventure, complete with a haunted hayride at night, homemade doughtnuts, hotdogs, fries, everything you could ask for in a redneck afternoon.

Their gimic on the pumpkins is that they are all you can carry, for 3 steps, for $20.  Guess who had to carry 8 pumpkins.....It was an awesome sunny fall day.  The leaves are just starting to turn and we had a great time.  The doughnuts were pretty good as well.  Maybe next weekend we could make some at home!