Fall Decorating and Family Fun

Stop by the Eveland Family Farm for your Fall decorating needs! Our pumpkin patch has been producing incredible amounts of pumpkins this year, and they are waiting for you to carve them into Jack-o'-Lanters this Halloween!

About Pumpkins

The pumpkin, a kind of squash, is a fruit that is most commonly orange when it is ripe. Pumpkins grow in many different shapes and sizes - some are tall and oval shaped, some are short and fat, and some are nearly perfectly circular. Pumpkins can weigh anywhere from just a few pounds up to 80 pounds! Smaller pumpkins are sweeter, and are preferred for eating (did someone say pumpkin pie?), while the larger pumpkins are usually used for decorating and making Jack-o'-Lanterns.

Don't throw away your pumpkin seeds! You can rinse off the pumpkin seeds, place them in a pan, sprinkle them with salt and roast them in the oven. Pumpkin seeds make an excellent fall snack!

Today, people in the US grow more pumpkins for decorations than they do for food. Many people try to reach a world record for "largest pumpkin ever grown" each year. The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,469 pounds!

The Jack-o'-Lantern

Jack was a lazy and shrewd farmer of Irish folklore, and he had a few different encounters with the Devil. Each time Jack and the Devil met, Jack tricked the Devil into going somewhere, and then blocking his path back with a cross. The Devil made an agreement with Jack: he would never bother Jack again in exchange for his release.

When Jack's time came, he was not allowed to enter Heaven because of his laziness and deceitfulness on earth. But the Devil would not accept Jack either, because he had agreed never to interfere with Jack again.

The Devil gave Jack a piece of coal, which he put into a turnip to help lead his way in the dark limbo between life and afterlife. If you look closely today, you can still see Jack's coal burning dimly on Halloween as he searches for a way home.

The Eveland Family Farm has a variety of other homegrown decorations for fall including cornstalks, straw bales, gourds of all kinds, and pumpkins in many sizes, shapes, and colors.

Our hours are:

3:00 - 7:00 p.m. Weekdays
10:00 - 6:00 p.m. Weekends

Hours good from the last week in September through Halloween. Please call us at (763) 755-5123 or e-mail info@evelandfamilyfarm.com if you would like to visit before or after this season!