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*CLOSED FOR THE SEASON* Thank you everyone for our most incredible season ever!!!! We are now closed until next fall. Your support of our family business keeps us going year after year! We also want to give a big shout out to our amazing staff who worked so hard with us all fall to make Country Pumpkins the special place that it is. Truly, we are blessed. ❤ Rest and family time are in our future......won’t be long until we start planning for 2025. ❤ Blessings, The Colson Family 📸: Cindy Dover Photography, LLC

📱LAST CALL📱 This is the FINAL DAY of our 2024 season!!! We will be open tonight, Thursday, October 31st from 4pm -7pm rain or shine.... 🎃 All pumpkins and gourds are BUY ONE GET ONE FREE! 🌻 Our sunflower field will be open. We still have lots of beautiful blooms! 🐐 Our petting zoo, play areas, and corn mazes will be open. 🚜 If the weather cooperates, we may run a hayride. We’ll post an update later. 🥨 This is your last chance to come get a Harvest Caramel Apple Slushie, Oakley’s Fish Pond Slushie, soft pretzel, and hot mini donuts until next fall!

Just took a walk to see the sunflowers on this gorgeous, 78 degree October 30th! Isn’t it crazy?? The flowers look so good and never cease to amaze me. This field has thrived through drought (last rainfall was a month ago) and multiple frosts! 🌻Tonight may be your last chance to see the sunflowers this year so don’t miss out! We are open tonight (Wednesday) 4-7. A corn maze ticket or Fun Pass gets you access to this field plus 2 u-pick blooms.🌻 We also stopped and saw the zinnias we had earlier this year. They didn’t survive the frost but you can see they were still in full bloom at the time - they bloomed for almost 4 months! You can expect to see WAY more zinnias here next year. We are officially obsessed. 😍

What a beautiful day! We will be open 4-7pm tonight (Wednesday). A hayride will run at 5:30 and a u-pick hayride at 6! If you have Fun Passes you can use them tonight. Also, our sunflower field is still open!!! 📸: Cheyenne Saylor

“Time is running out, people!” as our 5 year old Maddie says. We found this video she recorded all on her own yesterday and about passed out! 🤣🤣🤣 Hilarious! As a reminder, here is our schedule for the remainder of the season: Tuesday 10/29: CLOSED Wednesday 10/30: Open 4-7pm Thursday 10/31: Open 4-7pm (weather permitting) We will run a hayride at 5:30pm and a u-pick hayride at 6pm each of the nights we are open. All play areas, petting zoo, corn mazes, etc will be open. Then that’s it! Our season ends “very, very, very soon” on October 31st! P.S. The “Maddie Makes It” she mentions is her little bracelet business. She’s been selling her bracelets in our gift shop this year. ❤️

Happy Monday! First we want to say a BIG thank you for how you all showed up for our final weekend! It was amazing and we are so grateful! ❤ Next, we want to fill you in on our plans for our final days of this 2024 season...... Monday 10/28 (tonight), Wednesday 10/30, and Thursday 10/31 we will open 4-7pm. Please note, 10/31 is weather permitting as there is currently a high chance of rain. We’ll keep you posted. 🎃We will have ALL our activities open including our petting zoo, play areas, corn mazes, hayrides, barrel trains, AND u-pick pumpkin hayrides! Hayrides will run at 5:30pm on those nights and u-pick pumpkin hayrides will run at 6pm. U-pick hayrides will remain at their sale price of $9 each! 🌻IN ADDITION, our sunflower field will be open each of these nights! You can access the field with a corn maze ticket or Fun Pass. Two u-pick blooms are included!

The final Sunday of our 2024 season is here! We’re open 12-5 today! We have our u-pick pumpkin hayrides $2 off and we still have our Apple Donut Sundaes this weekend only! 😍

In case you missed it, our sunflower field will be OPEN this weekend. It looks beautiful!!! Access to this field is included with a corn maze ticket or Fun Pass and includes 2 u-pick blooms! Saturday: Open 10-7 Sunday: Open 12-5

*FINAL WEEKEND* Can you believe it, it’s our final weekend of the season!!! We have a full, exciting weekend ahead with glorious fall weather! HIGHLIGHTS: 🏷SALE: This Saturday and Sunday are U-Pick Pumpkin Hayrides are $2 off! See comments for details. 🍭Our Candy Express Free Barrel Train + Candy will be Saturday from 2-3pm. 🎨The Facepainting Mermaid will be here doing airbrush face painting on Saturday from 1-4pm. 🎃U-Pick Pumpkin Hayrides will run at 11am, 12:30pm, 2pm, 3:30pm, and 5pm on Saturday and at 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm on Sunday. 🌻Our Sunflower Field will be open on Saturday and Sunday!!!!! Access to the field is included with a corn maze ticket or Fun Pass. Includes 2 u-pick blooms. 🍦We have a special treat for this weekend only! Apple Donut Sundae’s will be available for $6 each while supplies last. HOURS: Open 2pm - 7pm on Friday Open 10am - 7pm Saturday Open 12pm - 5pm Sunday

Who says the kids should get all the treats? Grown-ups deserve something special too! We’ve been hard at work in the kitchen creating this 🍎Apple Donut Sundae🍎 which will be available this weekend while supplies last! Scoops of vanilla ice cream are topped with warm apple pie filling, 4 warm cinnamon sugar donut holes, and whipped cream. OH. MY. WORD. It’s SO delicious and tastes like warm apple pie with ice cream! $6 each.

RUN, don’t walk to book your birthday party for our FINAL weekend of the season! We have a few party spaces available for Saturday 10/26 and Sunday 10/27. Call Shelley at 859-905-9656 for more information or send us a message. 📸: No Blink Pictures

*CANDY EXPRESS FREE BARREL TRAIN + CANDY* Bring your kids Saturday, October 26th to ride the Candy Express Barrel Train! From 2:00 - 3:00pm on Saturday we will be offering FREE barrel train rides and free candy along the barrel train path for kids 12 and under! The children will board the barrel train (aka The Candy Express) and our staff will hand out candy and treats at various stops around the farm. Wear your costumes! While you’re here (we’ll be open 10am - 7pm Saturday) come take a hayride ($5), play on Pumpkin Ridge ($8 includes petting zoo, giant slides, Fairy Tale Trail, Mini Maze, photo spots, and Loft Indoor Play Area), or venture through our corn maze ($5)! Our concession stand will also be open with hamburgers, chicken tenders, funnel cakes, soft pretzels and cheese, hot mini donuts, homemade kettle corn, fudge, fresh-squeezed lemonade, hot spiced cider, iced coffee, and more.

🎃*SALE* This weekend our U-Pick Pumpkin Hayrides are $2 off! For just $9 a person you can take a hayride + pick a pumpkin right out of the patch while supplies last. 🕛In addition, we are adding u-pick times to make them more convenient. U-Pick Hayrides will run at 11am, 12:30pm, 2pm, 3:30pm, and 5pm on Saturday and at 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm on Sunday. 🎟$9 U-Pick tickets can be purchased at our ticket counter. Family members who do not want to pick a pumpkin can ride along for $5 each. Also, if you have already pre-purchased Fun Passes or Hayride tickets, you can upgrade to a u-pick ticket for $4 per pumpkin. 📍Country Pumpkins is located in Dry Ridge, KY just 10 minutes off of I-75 between Cincinnati and Lexington.

*ANNOUNCEMENT* It’s such a pretty day that we’ve decided to run a hayride at 5:30pm and a u-pick pumpkin hayride at 6pm tonight! The farm will be open 4-7pm. Hayrides are $5 per person. U-Pick Hayrides are $11 for each person picking a pumpkin and $5 for family members not picking a pumpkin.

Did you know we are open on week nights through October 31st? Here are the activities we have available on weeknights: (PLUS on Fridays after 5pm we also run hayrides and barrel train rides, just like the weekends.) 🎃Pumpkin Ridge - ($8 per person: includes Giant slides, corn boxes, petting zoo, Fairy tale trail, mini maze, hillbilly hoops, pumpkin house photo spot, loft indoor play area, and New adventure barn) 🎃Chunkin’ Pumpkin launcher - ($5 for 4 shots) 🎃Kiddie corn Maze - (free) 🎃4 Acre Corn Maze - ($5 per person) 🎃Turbo Slide - ($2 to slide all day) 🎃Kiddie Play Village - (free) 🎃Pumpkins, Corn Shocks, and Straw for Sale 🎃Gift Shop 🎃Limited Concessions - (soft pretzels, hot mini donuts, slushies, hot cider, nachos, drinks)

Open Sunday 12-5! Make sure you get some of our homemade kettle corn and other yummy treats while you’re here! All our activities will be open including u-pick pumpkin hayrides at 1, 2, 3, and 4 today!

Thank you for an amazing Saturday! We appreciate you all so much! We have an important sunflower update. We will NOT have our sunflower field open tomorrow, Sunday 10/20. We are SO sorry about this! The blooms have been slower to open than we anticipated and we had a big turn out today. As a result the field is currently picked clean. There are MANY more blooms to come, they just need more time. We apologize for any inconvenience. We try our best to plan and promote but sometimes things don’t go as planned, especially when you’re waiting for a flower to bloom. 🤪 We’ll keep you posted on the sunflower field re-opening. Should definitely be in good shape by next weekend if not before. Our fall festival will be open Sunday 12-5 as usual!

It’s a BEAUTIFUL day to visit the pumpkin patch! Come see us from 10am - 7pm at Country Pumpkins in Dry Ridge, KY! Make your fall memories at a real working farm in the country this year. ❤️ 🚜Hayrides 🌽Corn Mazes 🐐Petting Zoo 🎟️Play areas 🛝Slides 🌽Corn Boxes 🚂Barrel Train ✨Fairy Tale Trail 🎃Pumpkins 🛍️Gift Shop 🍿Yummy treats And lots more! See link in comments for pricing info. 📸: Ben Sparrow

*THIS WEEKEND + SUNFLOWERS* It’s going to be a beautiful weekend at Country Pumpkins in Dry Ridge, KY! Come make your fall memories with us on our 250 acre farm. We’ve got hayrides, barrel train rides, corn mazes, play areas, petting zoo, u-pick pumpkins (at select times - see below), pre-picked pumpkins, gift shop, and delicious concessions. The Facepainting Mermaid will be here Saturday 12-3pm. We’ve got a 🌻sunflower🌻 update for you! As you can see in the picture, our third and final field is about 5-10% in bloom as of Thursday night. They are doing amazing holding up through these cold, frosty nights we’ve had! We plan to open the sunflower field starting Saturday, 10/19. Please be aware that there will be a limited number of blooms to start the weekend with more blooming each day that goes by. To access the field you must have either a $5 corn maze ticket OR a Fun Pass. Each ticket includes 2 u-pick blooms. Here’s a full list of our hours for this weekend: 🎃 FRIDAY 10/18: Fall Festival will be open 2pm - 7pm (hayrides & barrel trains begin at 5pm) 🎃 SATURDAY 10/19: Fall Festival & Sunflower Field open 10am - 7pm. The Facepainting Mermaid will be here 12pm - 3pm (airbrush face painting is $5 or $10 depending upon design). U-Pick hayrides will run at 11am, 2pm, and 5pm. 🎃 SUNDAY 10/20: Fall Festival & Sunflower Field open 12pm - 5pm. U-Pick hayrides will run at 1pm, and 3pm.

It was a frosty, foggy morning here at the farm. We’ve had 3 schools here today for field trips! This evening we will be open from 4-7pm with our petting zoo, play areas, corn mazes, and Chunkin’ Pumpkin launcher!

Fall fun is in full swing at Country Pumpkins in Dry Ridge, KY! Come experience the best season of the year on a real 250 acre farm complete with pumpkins, hayrides, petting zoo, corn mazes, delicious food, and more! We’re located just 10 minutes off I-75 in Northern Kentucky. HOURS THIS WEEKEND: Friday: Open 2pm - 7pm Saturday: Open 10am - 7pm Sunday: Open 12pm - 5pm 🎟The Pumpkin Ridge Pass includes our petting zoo and lots of outdoor and indoor play areas for $8 per person! Hayrides and barrel train rides can be added onto this pass if you wish. 🎟OR for the full experience, we recommend the $22 Fun Pass wristband which includes all the Pumpkin Ridge activities plus a hayride, barrel train, Turbo Slide 4 Acre Corn Maze, and 4 shots from the Chunkin’ Pumpkin Launcher! (This is a $6 savings over buying all these activities individually.) FAQ’s: Q. Do you accept credit / debit cards? A. YES, we accept cards and cash at all registers. Q. Are kids under a certain age free? A. YES, children under 2 are free. Everyone age 2 and up is the same price. Q. Can I bring my dog? A. YES, well-behaved dogs on a leash are welcome.

We’d like to take a moment to reintroduce ourselves and tell our story..... Country Pumpkins was started by Dean and Debbie Colson along with some other relatives in 2000 as a simple roadside pumpkin sales business. By 2010 we grew to a complete fall festival with hayrides, corn mazes, etc. Matt and Shelley and their children joined the business in 2012. Each year since, we have been working hard to reinvest in the business and add new activities. It has become almost a year round labor of love preparing for each fall season. We love watching families come to our farm to make their fall memories......for many it’s become a family tradition and it brings us SO much joy to be part of that. Thank you for visiting us. When you choose Country Pumpkins, you are helping support a real family and helping us keep this farm going for many years to come. Thanks for your support, The Colson Family 📸Thank you to Cindy Dover Photography, LLC for the updated family photo!

WOW! What a weekend!!! Thank you all so much for choosing our farm for your fall memories! ❤️🎃❤️ Today (Monday 10/14) is our last day with *special fall break hours*. We’ll be open 2-7pm and will have all our activities open including hayrides and barrel train rides! 📸: Ben Sparrow

We have an AMAZING line up of vendors here today from 10-4 for our Fall Vendor Fair! Come see us! Our fall festival is open 10-7 with hayrides, barrel train, petting zoo, corn mazes, play areas, pumpkins at more at Country Pumpkins in Dry Ridge, KY! www.countrypumpkinsky.com

We’ve got a BEAUTIFUL day ahead! We will be open 2-9pm tonight for Fall Fun Night! Here are all the details…. Create your own fall date night, church event, family outing, etc under the stars here at Country Pumpkins! Choose from the following activities: Pumpkin Ridge ($8 - includes petting zoo and play areas. Open 2 - 7pm so plan accordingly.) Hayride ($5 - run at 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm) Corn Maze ($5 - open 2 - 9pm) Pumpkin Carving Contest @ 7 - 8:30pm ($12 per entry) Bonfire (free - available 6 - 9pm) Concessions open starting at 5pm. We will be serving burgers, chicken tenders, soft pretzels, nachos, homemade kettle corn, fresh squeezed lemonade, slushies, hot mini donuts, funnel cakes, and iced coffee!

We’re open tonight (Thursday, 10/10) from 4pm - 7pm! We will have all our activities open tonight including hayrides and barrel train rides. Come see us!

*THIS WEEKEND* Start planning your weekend now! We’ve got lots of opportunities for you to come make memories with your loved ones. 🔥 Friday, 10/11 from 2pm - 9pm is Fall Fun Night with a free bonfire and lots of farm fun! 👛 Saturday, 10/12 from 10am - 4pm is our Fall Vendor Fair with 45 vendors! Free admission and parking. Our fall festival is open 10am - 7pm. 🎃 Sunday, 10/13 from 12pm - 5pm all our fall festival activities will be open. One of our very favorite things is seeing pictures from your visit here and / or hearing why YOU love Country Pumpkins! Share your memories with us in the comments below! ❤Pssst, watch for our email at 11am today to learn how enter to win FREE Fun Passes!❤

Kids on fall break? 🥳Fall Fun Night🥳 is THIS FRIDAY night 2pm - 9pm! 🔥We’ll have all our usual fall festival activities and yummy concessions + a bonfire and pumpkin carving contest! We’re staying open until 9pm so you have more time to enjoy the fun! 🎟 $8 Pumpkin Ridge Passes (petting zoo and play areas) and $22 Fun Passes (all activities) can be used on this night. OR you can purchase individual activity tickets if you want to customize your experience: hayride ($5), corn maze ($5), barrel train ($3), Chunkin’ Pumpkin launcher ($5 for 4 shots). The bonfire is FREE. Pumpkin Carving is an optional activity available for $12. 🎃Pumpkin carving contest details: Cost is $12 per entry and includes one carving pumpkin and one pumpkin carving kit ($16 value for $12!). You can purchase one per family, one per couple, or one per person - you choose! We will provide table cloths and a designated pumpkin carving area for you to create your designs. Afterward, we will post photos of all the entries on our social media and take a vote. The winning pumpkin carver will receive a $50 cash prize! ***Please pre-purchase your pumpkin carving tickets so we can have the supplies ready for you! Let us know if you need the link.***

Good morning, friends! We wanted to say a big THANK YOU for coming to see us this past weekend! We know there are events going on at many other places, and the fact that you chose to come here means the world to us!!! We also want to thank the many of you who stop us during the day to share a kind word about your experience here at the farm. ❤ You may not realize it, but if you could also take a moment and leave us a review on Google (let us know if you need the link), that actually helps us a TON with the algorithm which helps people find us on the internet. TONIGHT, Monday 10/7 we will be open 4-7pm and the weather is going to be PERFECT! High of 69 and sunny today! Since it’s fall break for a lot of kiddos we will be offering hayrides and barrel train rides tonight in addition to our normal weeknight activities. Rides will begin about 5pm and run until 6:30pm. We will have our delicious slushies, hot mini donuts, soft pretzels, nachos, and drinks available at our concession stand if you need a snack. Ticket info: 🎟The $8 Pumpkin Ridge Pass includes our petting zoo and lots of play areas. 🎟We will also have our $22 Fun Pass available tonight which includes all Pumpkin Ridge activities, plus the hayride, barrel train, turbo slide 4 acre corn maze, and 4 shots from the Chunkin’ Pumpkin launcher! 🎟 You can also buy individual activity tickets if you don’t want to buy the bundled passes. Visit our website link in our bio for all the info!

Open Sunday 12-5pm!!! We hope to see you on this beautiful day!

Good morning and happy Saturday!!! We’re ready for you on this BEAUTIFUL day!!! Open Saturday 10am - 7pm and we’ve got loads of fall fun and delicious treats! Hayrides, u-pick pumpkins, barrel trains, corn mazes, play areas, giant slides, Fairy Tale Trail, corn boxes and MORE! Be sure to stop by our kettle corn booth for a FREE kettle corn sample! AND, we’re serving iced coffee for the first time today! 🎉Fresh-squeezed lemonade, funnel cakes, hot mini donuts, soft pretzels, fudge, burgers, chicken tenders, Slushies and other yummy treats will also be available. We’ve got pumpkins, mums, gourds, corn stalks, and straw for sale for your fall decorating.

*FALL BREAK* We know you’ve been waiting for this info! Here are our special Fall Break hours. On these days all of our activities will be open just like weekends (which means you’ll be able to use Fun Passes on these days as well.) 🚜Hayrides will begin approximately one hour after opening and end 30 minutes prior to closing. A concession menu of soft pretzels, hot mini donuts, slushies, nachos, fudge, and hot and cold drinks will be available. 🔥On Friday, 10/11 we are having a bonfire, pumpkin carving contest, and full concessions in addition to being open late until 9pm for our Fall Fun Night! Ready more about it at our link in the comments.

This week’s *ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK* is the Chunkin’ Pumpkin launcher! Launch mini pumpkins or gourds at steel targets in a field! It’s so much fun for all ages. Pssst.....it also makes for a great date night activity. The Chunkin’ Pumpkin launcher costs $5 for 4 shots. It’s also included in our Fun Pass! Open 6 days a week. Closed Tuesdays.

*FUN PASS GIVEAWAY* It’s back! We are giving away 1 FREE Fun Pass to the first 200 teachers and the first 200 military & first responders who sign up on our forms. 🎉Link in bio!🎉 Country Pumpkins fall festival is located on our 250 acre dairy and pumpkin farm in Dry Ridge, KY. Each fall we open our farm to the public for good old-fashioned family fun like hayrides, corn mazes, petting zoo, pumpkins, delicious treats, and more! We are grateful to be able to give back to our community through this giveaway again this year! Please tag your friends who this applies to so they don’t miss out.

*THIS WEEKEND* After last weekend’s rain, we are more excited than ever for this weekend’s beautiful weather!!! While we had some spare time this past weekend, we created a menu item we’ve wanted to add for a long time - ICED COFFEE! Available starting this Saturday and Sunday at the kettle corn / lemonade booth. Choose from French Vanilla, Caramel, and Pumpkin Spice flavors! 🎃 Friday, 10/4: Open 2 - 7pm. Hayrides and barrel trains begin at 5pm. (Limited concessions) 🎃 Saturday, 10/5: Open 10am - 7pm. Come get a free kettle corn sample at our kettle corn booth from 10am - 1pm. U-Pick Hayrides run at 11am, 2pm, and 5pm. 🎃 Sunday, 10/6: Open 12pm - 5pm. U-Pick Hayrides run at 1pm & 3pm.

🎈It’s party time at the pumpkin patch!🎈 We just added more party spots on Saturdays and Sundays since we were getting booked up! These new spots are in our Red Barn picnic shelter. We have limited availability left in our Birthday Shelter as well. Shelter rental is $35 for 2 hours in a shelter space that seats 25 people. Admission into the party area is free for your guests. Popular party add-ons are the Turbo Slide, Barrel Train, Pumpkin Ridge, and Hayrides! Activity tickets can be purchased the day of your event or online in advance. Check availability in the Birthday Shelter: https://countrypumpkinsky.mazeplay.com/Products/shelter-rental—birthday-shelter Check availability in the Red Barn Picnic Shelter: https://countrypumpkinsky.mazeplay.com/Products/shelter-rental—red-barn

We need your help!!! Please comment below with your area’s fall break dates. We will likely have special fall break hours and activities and want to plan accordingly. Thank you!

*NEW EVENT* Fall Fun Night will be on Friday, October 11th from 2-9pm. Create your own fall date night, church event, family outing, etc under the stars here at Country Pumpkins! Choose from the following activities: Pumpkin Ridge ($8 - includes petting zoo and play areas. Open 2 - 7pm so plan accordingly.) Hayride ($5 - run at 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm) Corn Maze ($5 - open 2 - 9pm) Pumpkin Carving Contest* @ 7 - 8:30pm ($12 per entry) Bonfire (free - available 6 - 9pm) Concessions open starting at 5pm. We will be serving burgers, chicken tenders, soft pretzels, nachos, homemade kettle corn, fresh squeezed lemonade, slushies, hot mini donuts, funnel cakes, AND and new secret menu item that we will reveal later this week! *Pumpkin Carving Contest details: We are so excited to host our first ever pumpkin carving contest! Your $12 entry fee includes one carving pumpkin and one pumpkin carving kit. You can purchase one per family, one per couple, or one per person - you choose! We will provide table cloths and a designated pumpkin carving area for you to create your designs. Afterward, we will post photos of all the entries on our social media and take a vote. The winning pumpkin carver will receive a $50 cash prize! ***Please pre-purchase your pumpkin carving tickets so we can have the supplies ready for you! Message us if you want the link!

*VENDORS NEEDED* We moved our Fall Vendor Fair to Saturday, October 12th! As a result, we have a number of vendors not able to attend our new date and have about 20 spaces available. If you’re looking for a last minute event, please register at our link in bio. We’re specifically looking for vendors in the following categories: - Woodworking - Pottery - Greeting cards - Art - Trucker hat bar - Tie dye - Plants - and other unique vendors! Sorry, crochet is full. No food or beverage vendors, please.

REMINDER: We are closed today, Sunday, September 29th. We plan to reopen Monday from 4-7 with all activities except for hayrides and barrel train rides!

*CLOSED SUNDAY 9/29.* Due to continued showers tomorrow and very muddy conditions, we have made the decision to close tomorrow, 9/29 as well. We’ve received almost 5 inches of rain so far. It’s such a bummer and we’re sorry to disappoint anyone! 😭 Also, this rain and wind destroyed our sunflower field that was in bloom. Scroll to the end of our photos to see a little good news…we have a 3rd field of sunflowers not yet blooming that benefitted from the rain. These photos show some of the wind damage. All minimal though setting the Hillbilly Hoops game back up took a couple tractors and some effort. Also, it seems that our new Adventure Barn sign has gone on an adventure. 🤣 It’s blown away and so far we can’t find it. If you’re local and find a 5’x6’ orange banner in your field, let us know.

REMINDER: We are CLOSED today, Saturday, 9/28! Our Fall Vendor Fair has been rescheduled to Saturday, October 12th. We will make a decision about Sunday later today. We still need to fully assess wind damage from yesterday and do some clean up. Thankfully, the damage seems to be minimal so far....mostly involving blown over benches, signs, fence, etc. Right now we know Hillbilly Hoops was blown over which is mind-blowing! Fortunately all these things can be fixed fairly quickly. Still need to get into our corn mazes and check them out. Thank you for your patience and support. This is certainly not how we wanted this weekend to go.

ATTN: Our farm will be CLOSED tonight, Friday 9/27 and Saturday, 9/28. We will wait to make a decision about Sunday. Hopefully the weather will improve!

*IMPORTANT* We have a SAD update about our Fall Vendor Fair. 😢 We just made the decision to 👉reschedule👈 our Fall Vendor Fair due to rain. It was originally planned for this Saturday, but now we are moving it to Saturday, October 12th. As we’re sure you know, a large hurricane in the Gulf is set to head our way and bring rain into our area this weekend. While we are thankful for the rain, the timing is tough! We want to give our vendors the best chance at success and our customers a fun experience. We greatly apologize to those of you who had already made plans to come and shop this Saturday. Please help us out by sharing this post so we can get the word out! Also, we currently plan to keep our farm open this Saturday and Sunday.....who knows, the weather could clear up! We will be sure to post any changes here. Our prayers are with everyone in the path of this massive storm. #HurricaneHelene

This week’s *ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK* is our 4 Acre Corn Maze! Meander your way through our maze full of twists and turns this fall season! Looking for more of a challenge? Find all our hidden stations inside the maze and you’ll get to launch a pumpkin from our Chunkin’ Pumpkin launcher for free! The 4 Acre Corn Maze is $5 per person, OR included in our Fun Pass! This weekend your ticket also includes access to our sunflower field and 2 u-pick sunflowers. Open 6 days a week. Closed Tuesdays. Not up to a maze this big? We also have 2 smaller kiddie corn mazes on the farm! 📸: Cindy Dover Photography, LLC

Shoutout to Matt, our tour guide extraordinaire (and one of our owners)! He will be super busy from now through October leading lots of field trips and giving cow milking demonstrations. If you haven’t booked your fall field trip yet, we still have some availability for schools and homeschool days! Comment if you need more info.

*FALL VENDOR FAIR* Check out some of the amazing items our vendors will be selling at our Fall Vendor Fair this Saturday, 9/28 from 10am - 4pm! Admission and parking at this event are free. Keep an eye on our stories this week where we will be sharing even more info about our vendors! ⭐Pssst.....we are having an email subscriber only CASH giveway this week! Get on our email list by Wednesday at 11am for info on how to win some shopping money! (link in profile)⭐ The Fall Vendor Fair is held annually at our farm, Country Pumpkins, in Dry Ridge, KY just a 10 minute drive off I-75 located between Lexington and Cincinnati. We’ll also have all our fall festival activities open from 10am to 7pm: hayrides, pumpkins, petting zoo, slides, barrel train rides, corn mazes, play areas, photo spots, and lots more! Visit https://www.countrypumpkinsky.com/fall-festival-corn-maze for activity pricing information. Hungry? Be sure to stop by Country Eats & Sweets for lots of yummy treats! Funnel cakes, kettle corn, fresh-squeezed lemonade, hot mini donuts, fudge, apple cider slushies, soft pretzels, hamburgers, hot dogs, and chicken tenders.

❤ Make plans to attend our annual Fall Vendor Fair happening THIS Saturday, September 28th from 10am - 4pm at Country Pumpkins in Dry Ridge, KY! Free admission and parking. 🎃 It’s the best of both worlds…..we will have 50 awesome vendors and crafters you can shop AND loads of good old-fashioned family fun at our fall festival which includes hayrides, pumpkins, petting zoo, slides, barrel train rides, corn mazes, play areas, photo spots, and lots more! 🍯 Come support these talented vendors who have been working hard preparing for this show. You can expect to see items like jewelry, shirts, pottery, tumblers, soaps & lotions, signs, home decor, honey, jam, crocheted items, and LOTS more!

Open 12-5 on Sunday! It’s the perfect day to grab a fresh-squeezed lemonade or an ice cold slushie! We were going to put music over this video but decided the sounds were just too fun to cover up! 🍋

*THIS WEEKEND* at Country Pumpkins! Guess what!? We’ve got a little surprise for you! 🌻Our second field of sunflowers has just begun blooming! You will be able to access our sunflower field starting this Saturday with a corn maze ticket or Fun Pass. Includes 2 u-pick blooms. Please note: this field is very different from our first field this year. There are lots of weeds among the sunflowers and because of the drought these plants only reached about 2.5 feet tall. We will have a limited number blooming this weekend, but lots more should open through next week into next weekend. Here’s the schedule for this weekend: 🎃 Friday open 2pm - 7pm. Hayrides and barrel trains run after 5pm. 🐄 Saturday open 10am - 7pm with all our activities and concessions. It’s Got Milk Day so we will be giving away free cider slushie floats to our first 100 guest and doing free cow milking demonstrations and calf bottle feeding between 11am - 2pm. 🌻 Sunday open 12pm - 5pm with all our activities and concessions.

We’re giving away FREE cider slushie floats to our first 100 guests this Saturday, 9/21!!! 🐄 We’ll be open 10am - 7pm on Saturday with all our fall festival activities. It’s also Got Milk Day here at our farm. In addition to the free floats, we will have free cow milking demonstrations and calf bottle feeding from 11am - 2pm. This cider slushie float is a *EXCLUSIVE ITEM* we created just for this special day! It features 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream topped with apple cider slush, whipped cream, and caramel drizzle. It’s SO delicious! Don’t miss it.

This week’s *ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK* is our brand new Adventure Barn! Over this past winter and spring, we took our ugly, run-down hay shed and turned into this beautiful new attraction! It features a large corn box, guess who style games, wall ball, giant chalkboard, and a cute farm hopper area with a beautiful mural! The Adventure Barn is the pretty red barn you’ll pass on your way to our parking lot. It’s included with our Pumpkin Ridge Pass and Fun Pass! Open 6 days a week. Closed Tuesdays.

Coming up this Saturday, 9/21 is GOT MILK DAY! You might be wondering, “What the heck is that!?” So glad you asked, we’ll explain. 😀 Did you know our family has been milking dairy cows since 1947 and currently offers a raw milk herd share (which is full)? It’s important to us to honor that heritage and take a special day each season to offer FREE cow milking demonstrations to the public. Usually only our field trip kiddos get to see this educational demo, but on Got Milk Day, we open it up to everyone! You will also get the chance to bottle feed a calf for free - which is such a sweet experience! If you know our family, you know that we are lovers of ICE CREAM! This year on Got Milk Day we have created a very special, limited-edition, cider float and will be giving it away to our first 100 guests. It features two scoops of vanilla ice cream topped with our apple cider slush and a drizzle of caramel sauce to take it over the top! In the words of Brenda our friend, cousin, and concession helper........it’s the best thing we’ve ever made! HA! It’s seriously so good! ​Thank you to Venture Dairy for sponsoring these free cider floats! Our 15-year-old nephew, Caleb Lipps, is carrying on the family dairy tradition and is pasteurizing and selling milk in the Shelbyville, KY area! Check out his Venture Dairy Facebook page for more info.

*Group Events & Group Pricing* We want to host your group this fall! So far this year we are already working with the following groups on creating memorable events during the most beautiful time of the year: ⛪ Churches 🎉 Youth groups 🏫 Private schools 🚜 Businesses 🏡 Realtors We still have availability in September and October for day time and evening events. Give us a call at 859-905-9656 for more info. You can also visit https://www.countrypumpkinsky.com/farm-corporate-events to learn more about our barn rental and group packages.

*ATTN: TEACHERS* Need a fall field trip for your school? We’ve got you covered! Our field trips include a mix of education, hands-on activities, and fun! Learn about dairy cows and what they eat, watch a cow being milked, bottle feed a calf, pet our goats, and run and play in our play areas! At the end of the field trip kids get to take home a mini pumpkin of their own. ✏️We have some availability left in October. Book your trip online today at the link in our profile.

Open Sunday 12-5pm! Come see us for a Harvest Caramel Apple Slushie and lots of family-friendly fall fun!

Happy Saturday!!! Today we are open 10am - 7pm with all our activities and concessions. The Children’s Entrepreneur Market will be open 11am - 2pm. Come shop 35 kid vendors’ creations! Check out this freshly picked load of decorative pumpkins. They are absolutely stunning! We also have carving pumpkins, gourds, mini pumpkins, straw, mums, and corn shocks for all your fall decorating!

*SPECIAL EVENT* We will be hosting our first ever Children’s Entrepreneur Market tomorrow, Saturday, September 14th from 11 - 2pm. Have you ever been to one?! It’s a market run exclusively by kids ages 5 -17! Come out and support these hard-working kiddos selling everything from quilts, leather pouches, dog treats and bandannas, lip balms, jewelry and more! 🔈Please help us spread the word!🔈 Of course we have to give a shout out to our own young entrepreneur, Caroline’s Creations, who will be set up selling her slime! While you’re here, make sure to stop by our fall festival which will be in full swing with lots of fall activities like hayrides, corn mazes, and petting zoo. We will also have plenty of delicious food available at our concession stand including burgers, chicken tenders, funnel cakes, kettle corn, slushies, fresh-squeezed lemonade and more!

Country Pumpkins | Dry Ridge, KY | countrypumpkinsky.com | Open September 7th - October 31st. Closed Tuesdays.

This week’s *ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK* is our Gift Shop! Make sure you stop by our cute gift shop shed that is filled with fun items like fall decor, Country Home Creations dip & bread mixes, stuffed animals, t-shirts, candles, kids crafts and more! The Gift Shop is located in our pumpkin sales yard and is part of our free admission area! Open 6 days a week. Closed Tuesdays.

Thanks to my gorgeous sis, Michaela (aka our fudge maker, @kkskitchencincy ) for modeling our new 2024 shirt! Doesn’t she make it look amazing?! The t-shirts are available in our gift shop. We also have more of our popular designs from last year available as well.

*THIS WEEKEND* Hope you’re ready for some fall fun because we have TWO awesome events coming up this weekend in addition to our regular fall festival activities! FREE HAYRIDE NIGHT 🔥 This Friday, September 13th is our annual Free Hayride & Bonfire Night! We open at 2pm for the day, concessions open at 5pm, and FREE hayrides run between 6pm - 8pm. Free activities on this evening include admission and parking, hayride, bonfire, Kiddie Corn Maze, and Sand Tunnel Play Area. All other fall festival activities like 4 Acre Corn Maze, Chunkin’ Pumpkin, Pumpkin Ridge (petting zoo, corn boxes, giant slides, and more), and barrel trains will be open but ​tickets would need to be purchased​ for those activities if you’d like to do them. CHILDREN’S ENTREPRENEUR MARKET 🛒 On Saturday, September 14th from 11am - 2pm we will be hosting our first ever Children’s Entrepreneur Market at our farm. Admission and parking are free. There will be 35 kid vendors who have been working SO HARD on all their creations! Come out and support these young business owners. We’ll also have all our fall festival activities and concessions up and running, so load up the family and make a fun day of it! 🍔What’s your favorite fall treat? We’ve got you covered with lots of amazing food at our concession stand all weekend long! We serve burgers, chicken tenders, homemade kettle corn, fresh-squeezed lemonade, soft pretzels, slushies, hot mini donuts, funnel cakes, fudge, and more!

Don’t miss out on our WEEKLY *email subscriber only* giveaways! Watch your inbox tomorrow for info on how to enter to win these sweet treats plus some Fun Passes to Country Pumpkins! We debuted both of these premium slushies last year and they were SUCH a hit, we brought them both back this year! Available 6 days a week during our business hours (closed Tuesdays). 📧See link in profile to sign up for our email list!📧

🌸Come get your mums!!!🌸 We got in a huge load of 120 mums today in assorted colors! $10 each. We’ll be open until 7pm tonight!

Let’s talk about our hours for this season! They will be exactly the same as last year. Don’t forget we are also open on week nights (closed Tuesdays) from now through October 31st! Please note: Our hayrides and barrel train rides only run Friday nights after 5, and throughout the days on Saturdays and Sundays. All other activities like corn maze, petting zoo, play areas, pumpkin sales, new Adventure Barn, etc are open daily except Tuesdays.

Wow! What an Opening Day we had yesterday! In fact, it was so great and so busy we didn’t get time to take a single photo!!! We would LOVE to see yours below. Thank you for all the support and so many kind words of encouragement. We are so blessed and so thankful for all of you! Open today, Sunday from 12-5 with all our fall festival activities like hayrides, corn mazes, petting zoo, play areas, and new Adventure Barn! Our sunflower field will be open today again as well. Here’s a photo taken last week of the farm hopper area in our new Adventure Barn!

This week’s *ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK* is our Barrel Train! This ride pulled by an UTV takes kids 12 and under on a fun journey through our farm! It’s been a kid-favorite for YEARS! Barrel Train loading is located near our fire pit and costs $3 per ride OR is included in our Fun Pass! It runs on Fridays from 5-7pm, Saturdays, and Sundays from 9/7 - 10/31.

Words cannot express how elated we are to show off our NEW farm map for 2024!!! As we have grown and expanded over the years, it was time for an upgrade to our map. Thankfully, our brother-in-law, Ben Wilker, is a talented architect and whipped up this gorgeous map for us! THANK YOU, Ben! (pssst, we can pass along his contact info if you want it!) 🗺This year when you arrive at our farm, you will receive a beautiful bi-fold brochure with info about our farm and this map on the inside to help you find all our fun activities! 📍We are located in Dry Ridge, KY just 10 minutes off of I-75 in Northern Kentucky. Open starting THIS SATURDAY, 9/7 through 10/31. Closed Tuesdays. 🎟 Tickets are now available at the link in our profile!! Don’t miss out on our FLASH SALE on Pumpkin Ridge Passes & Fun Passes which runs through this Friday, 9/6/24 at 11:59pm. Use code FLASH2024 at checkout.

***FLASH SALE*** Run and grab your tickets for our 2024 season! We are having a 20% off FLASH SALE on our popular Pumpkin Ridge Passes & Fun Passes from now until Friday, 9/6 at 11:59pm. Enter code FLASH2024 at checkout! 🔗See ticket link in profile.🔗 The Pumpkin Ridge Pass (regular $8 per person) includes the following activities: 🎃 Petting Zoo 🎃 Giant Slides 🎃 Fairy Tale Trail 🎃 Mini Maze 🎃 Pumpkin House Photo Spot 🎃 Hillbilly Hoops 🎃 Loft Indoor Play Area (includes huge corn box, fake cow you can milk, & more!) 🎃 NEW Adventure Barn (includes corn box, wall ball games, farm hoppers, & more!) The Fun Pass (regular $22 per person) includes: 🎃 All Pumpkin Ridge activities listed above. ☝ 🎃 Hayride 🎃 Barrel Train Ride 🎃 4 Acre Corn Maze 🎃 4 Shots from our Chunkin’ Pumpkin Launcher Come make some memories at Country Pumpkins in Dry Ridge, KY this fall!

Happy Labor Day!!! We’re busy around here doing our final set up for all fall season which opens this Saturday!!! 🌻If you’re looking for something to do TODAY, we do have our sunflower field and gift shop open today at 9am - 11:30am and again at 6pm - 8:30pm. Tickets are $5 and include 2 u-pick blooms.🌻 Also here is our calendar of special events for this fall! Let us know if you’d like the link to our latest blog post with all the special event details!

Our sunflower field opened today, 8/31, so we thought it was a fitting time to look back on their journey! This field has been a stand out from the start. Planted on July 6th, these little baby plants were popping through the ground in just 3 days! It’s truly amazing how fast they grow. 😍😍😍

You don’t know how scary it is to make a guesstimate on when a sunflower field will be ready, but GUESS WHAT?! We got it right! Whew! 🌻We are opening JUST our sunflower field starting tomorrow morning, 8/31 through 9/5. Don’t miss out on the beauty! Get your tickets at the link in our profile. Tickets are $5 and include 2 u-pick blooms!🌻 It’s truly amazing how well they have held up in this drought and heat. What an incredible flower (we also have a small amount of zinnias if you’d like to pick them instead of sunflowers!) Comment a ❤️ if you love them!!!

***KETTLE CORN & LEMONADE*** We are beyond excited to share that we will be making our very own Homemade Kettle Corn this fall!!! In early August we invested in a piece of commercial kitchen equipment that is basically a little kettle corn factory. It will help us produce the freshest, best-tasting kettle corn ever! So far we are having lots of fun practicing with it and are thrilled with the results! Matt converted this somewhat unused area of our main shelter (last pic) into our Kettle Corn Booth....yes, the giant chair photo spot used to be in front of that wall that now has a cut out.....don’t worry, we moved the chair to a new spot! 😀 Bags of kettle corn will be for sale at FOUR locations here on the weekends starting September 7th: 🍿Kettle Corn Booth 🍿Country Eats & Sweets (our main concession stand) 🍿Snack Station at Pumpkin Ridge 🍿Snack Station in our new Adventure Barn In addition, we have decided to make our own fresh-squeezed lemonade this fall! It’s been a blast experimenting with recipes. Lemonade will be available on weekends only at our new Kettle Corn Booth.

This week’s *ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK* is our Turbo Slide! Kids love this double slide we built into the back of an old feed truck! The Turbo Slide is located near our pumpkin sales area and costs just $2 to slide all day OR is included in our Fun Pass! Its close proximity to our birthday party shelter makes it a popular party add-on. Open from September 7th - October 31st. Closed Tuesdays. 📸: No Blink Pictures

***VOTE*** What are your favorite fudge flavors??? We are placing our first fudge order of the season tomorrow and we want to know which of these flavors are your favorite! ❤️ Vanilla (NEW this fall!) ❤️ Chocolate ❤️ Peanut Butter ❤️ Chocolate Peanut Butter ❤️ Cookie Dough ❤️ Cookies n Cream ❤️ Orange Creamsicle ❤️ S’more ❤️ Cherry Cordial ❤️ Banana Pudding ❤️ Snickerdoodle 1/2 pound containers of this fresh, scratch-made fudge will be available starting Opening Day, September 7th!!!

Guess what!? ***Email Subscriber Only Giveaways*** start TODAY! Hurry and get on our email list (link in profile) before 11am so you don’t miss out on entering to win this week’s great prizes!

🌻SUNFLOWER DAYS🌻 Our sunflowers are a little ahead of schedule! We weren’t planning to open early for sunflowers, BUT this perfect field of 37,000 blooms (!!!!!) is just TOO GOOD to miss a day of its beauty! We will be opening our sunflower field THIS WEEKEND starting Saturday, August 31st through Thursday, September 5th on select days and times. Once we reach our Fall Festival opening day on September 7th, you can visit the sunflower field without a special timed ticket any time during our business hours for $5 (but we’re not sure how much longer this field will be in bloom by the 7th - likely a week or less). If you want to experience the sunflowers at their peak for photos, etc, we recommend visiting during these designated Sunflower Days from 8/31 - 9/5. ***Advance registration required! Get your tickets at the link in our profile.*** Important to know: 🌻This sunflower field is located on the far side of our corn maze. You will need to walk approximately 1,000 feet from the parking lot to the sunflower field. Shuttle service is not available. 🌻We do not have any photo spots set up in this field, BUT it’s beauty speaks for itself. 🌻We estimate this field contains 37,000 blooms!!! 🌻Average plant height is 4.5 - 5.5 feet tall. 🌻You can arrive any time during your ticket window, please note the gate will close and be locked at the end of the ticket time. 🌻This ticket does NOT include any Country Pumpkins activities.....we are still setting up for that opening day on 9/7. 🌻Photographers welcome! Included in your $5 per person ticket: 🌻Access to the sunflower field and our corn maze if you wish. 🌻2 blooms you get to pick from the field. 🌻Additional blooms can be purchased on-site for $1 per bloom. 🌻Water, rubber bands, bags, and clippers will be provided for taking your flowers home. You will be responsible for bagging your flowers. ______________________________________________ 🦋BUTTERFLY RELEASE🦋 If you love butterflies and sunflowers, we have a unique experience for you! On Saturday, September 7th at 10:30am we will be having a butterfly release in our sunflower field. See link in profile for all the info and to get tickets!

*BUTTERFLY RELEASE* Good morning! We have a very special announcement! We will be doing a 🦋Butterfly Release🦋 in our sunflower field on Saturday, September 7th at 10:30am!!! Grab your tickets today for this beautiful event to help kick off the opening day of our 24th fall season! ***Pre-registration is required - see ticket link in profile.*** 🌻You will get to release a Painted Lady Butterfly (or 2 or 3, purchase as many as you want!) in the sunflower field located near our 4 acre corn maze. 🥨 Once you’re finished at the sunflower field, stop by our concession stand for a delicious lunch and fun treats like kettle corn, fresh-squeezed lemonade, apple cider slushies, soft pretzels, funnel cakes, and more! 🎃 All our fall festival activities will be OPEN starting on this day so be sure to stay for a hayride, u-pick pumpkins, corn maze, petting zoo, and more during your visit! ➡ We would greatly appreciate it if you could SHARE this post and help us spread the word since it’s less than 2 weeks away! (Full disclosure, it does look like our sunflowers will bloom earlier than expected. We MAY open the sunflower field only as early as Labor Day weekend. We are keeping an eye on the blooms and will make that decision very soon....)

🎃🎃🎃 Country Pumpkins fall festival opens 2 weeks from today!!!! 🎃🎃🎃

*GOT MILK DAY* will be held on Saturday, September 21st from 11am - 2pm this year! Each fall we take a day to celebrate the dairy heritage of our farm (our family has been milking cows since 1947!!!). 🐄 As usual, we will have cow milking demonstrations and calf bottle feeding between 11am - 2pm. You’ll also have the opportunity to ask the farmer all your questions about cows and milk! Normally, only our field trips get these two activities, but on Got Milk Day we open them up to everyone for FREE! To top it off, we will be giving away a delicious apple cider slushie float to our first 100 guests (apple cider slush layered with vanilla ice cream). YUM! Our fall festival activities will also be open on this day including hayrides, corn mazes, petting zoo, fun play areas, concessions, pumpkins for sale, and MORE! See website for fall festival pricing. Come join us for a fun and educational day in the country!

This week’s *ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK* is our Petting Zoo! Come meet our adorable calves and goats this fall! No doubt our baby goats Jacob and Esau will be the stars of the show this year. They were born here on our farm on Derby Day and they absolutely LOVE people! Our Petting Zoo is located on Pumpkin Ride and is included with your Pumpkin Ridge Pass or Fun Pass. We will also have animal feed for sale for $1 per cup. Open from September 7th - October 31st. Closed Tuesdays.

This is the spot where the Giant Chair used to be, but it’s going to have to find a new home on our farm this year. Matt is in the process of converting this area into something NEW! We have a DELICIOUS announcement hitting your inbox today at 11am! Make sure you’re subscribed to our email list to get all the details..…comment if you need the sign up link.

*U-Pick Pumpkin Days* We’re excited to share our u-pick pumpkin plans for this year!!! In summary, we will be offering U-Pick Pumpkin Hayrides on Saturdays and Sundays at set times from September 7th until we sell out (we hope to make it well into October). Cost is $11 per person if you’re picking a pumpkin or $5 for family members who are not picking a pumpkin. Now, here are ALL the details: 🎃 U-Pick Hayrides will be offered on Saturdays at 11am, 2pm, and 5pm and on Sundays at 1pm and 3pm beginning on September 7, 2024. (These will be available throughout the season until we sell out - we HOPE to make it well into October.) 🎃 The U-Pick Hayride will be $11 per person and will include a hayride and a pumpkin you get to pick from the field. NOTE: Change from last year, not everyone in your group will be required to buy an $11 u-pick ticket. If you have family members riding along who are not picking a pumpkin, they would only pay the $5 hayride price. 🎃 U-Pick tickets will be available ONLY at the ticket counter. Please arrive early to purchase the tickets for your desired time slot. Spaces are limited. 🎃 If you purchase a Fun Pass online or here at the farm, you will have the option to upgrade to a U-Pick ticket while at the ticket counter for $6 per pumpkin. 🎃 Unlike past years, regular hayrides will NOT stop at the u-pick fields. Only the designated u-pick hayrides will stop. 🎃 Please note, our new Pumpkin Sales area is another way you can buy pumpkins at our farm! It is located near the ticket counter and kept well stocked with freshly picked pumpkins in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors if you prefer to buy pre-picked. Our goal with these changes is to find a happy medium between what we offered years ago, and what we did last year. The timed slots help us plan our day and our staffing, and also allow you to know what time to expect the u-pick rides to run. Any questions? Please let us know!

*SPECIAL EVENT* We will be hosting our first ever Children’s Entrepreneur Market on Saturday, September 14th from 11 - 2pm. This market is run exclusively by kids ages 5 -17! We can’t wait to see all their amazing creations which include everything from quilts, leather pouches, dog teats and bandanas, lip balms, jewelry and more! As parents of a young entrepreneur ourselves, this event is near and dear to our hearts. :) Our daughter, Caroline’s Creations, will be set up selling her slime (pssst...she has created some really cool ones for this fall season!) While you’re here, make sure to stop by our fall festival which will be in full swing with lots of fall activities like hayrides, corn mazes, and petting zoo. We will also have plenty of delicious food available at our concession stand including burgers, chicken tenders, funnel cakes, kettle corn, slushies, fresh-squeezed lemonade and more! Note: There are still vendor spots left for this event if you have a kiddo who is interested in setting up! Comment if you want the link!

*SUNFLOWER UPDATE & BUTTERFLY RELEASE* We haven’t talked about this much yet, BUT this summer we planted 2 fields of sunflowers around the outer edge of our 4 acre corn maze. We hope to plant a 3rd field in that area soon. Hopefully we will have sunflowers off and on throughout our fall season with these staggered plantings! Of course, nothing ever goes perfectly to plan, so there will likely be some gaps in the availability. That said, here’s the current plan for sunflowers this year...... 🌻We’re *hoping* to have sunflowers in bloom starting our fall festival opening day, September 7th. This is subject to change. We’ll keep you updated. 🌻The sunflowers are located behind the corn maze so you’ll be able to walk to them. 🌻If you want to see the sunflowers you’ll need a $5 corn maze ticket or a Fun Pass ticket (which includes the corn maze). 🌻Each person will be able to pick 2 blooms for FREE included with your corn maze or Fun Pass ticket. 🌻Additional blooms can be purchased. 🌻This will be a very natural field of sunflowers. There will be weeds (though our first field is currently VERY clean and weed-free, other fields will likely vary) and no special photo props in this area - just natural beauty! :) 🦋Next, let’s talk about a Butterfly Release! We are tentatively planning a Butterfly Release in our sunflowers on September 7th! Because we are at the mercy of so many factors out of our control, we cannot open ticket sales for this event quite yet. We will wait until a bit closer to open ticket sales, just to make sure the flowers will really be blooming at the time. We will keep you posted.🦋 (The sunflowers have grown at least a foot since this first photo was taken a week ago! The next 3 photos were taken last night.)

This week’s *ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK* is our ✨Fairy Tale Trail✨. It is one of our much-loved new additions from last year! The Fairy Tale Trail takes you along a winding path through the corn as you read the story of “Jack and the Cornstalk” on colorful signs. (Tip: We also sell paperback copies of this fun story in our Gift Shop!) The Fairy Tale Trail is located on Pumpkin Ridge and included with your Pumpkin Ridge Pass or Fun Pass. Open from September 7th - October 31st. Closed Tuesdays.

Last night we took a rare moment to enjoy our beautiful fire pit with some friends. We were blessed with the most gorgeous sunset as well! 🔥Did you know you can rent out this area for a private evening event (like birthday parties, engagements, church events, company outings)? Comment if you want the details!🔥

*FREE HAYRIDE & BONFIRE NIGHT!* Our annual customer appreciation free hayride and bonfire night is coming up one month from today on Friday, September 13th! On this evening you’ll be able to take a free hayride and enjoy extended hours around our bonfire! Other activities and delicious concessions will be available for purchase. 🎃 Activities open at 2pm on 9/13. 🎃 Full concessions including meals, funnel cakes, kettle corn and more open at 5pm. 🎃 Free hayrides and bonfire between 6pm and 8pm.

🏠 STAY & PLAY PROMOTION 🏠 Did you know that we have 3 vacation rental houses here on our farm??? In 2022 and 2023 we built 3 beautiful tiny houses that sleep between 4 and 7 people each. They overlook our rolling Kentucky hills and have the best sunset views on the farm! ​SPECIAL PROMOTION: Book dates between September 7th - October 31 to receive FREE Pumpkin Ridge Passes for your family! 🩷Comment if you want the link!🩷

Here are a few photo updates from around the farm as we prepare for our 24th season! 🎃The exterior of our Adventure Barn is finished! Working on finishing touches inside. 🎃Crops are growing! 🎃We had a magazine photo shoot last week! We’ve got a crazy few weeks ahead of us as we complete final set up. Can’t wait to see it all come together!

This week’s *ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK* is our ⭐Loft Indoor Play Area⭐. Last year we converted the hayloft of our dairy barn into a fun play area for kids! It features a HUGE Corn Box, photo spot, Swiss Miss (a fake cow you can milk), Barnyard Blocks, Barn Loft Hoops, Dress a Scarecrow station, and a giant chalkboard wall! The Loft is included with your Pumpkin Ridge Pass or Fun Pass and is open from September 7th - October 31st. Closed Tuesdays.

We’ve got an exciting update about our 🎃U-Pick Pumpkin plans🎃 hitting your inboxes at 11am today! Make sure you get on our email list to get all the info! ✉️ Another reason you want to be on that email list.....in a few weeks we will begin weekly giveaways for *email subscribers only*!!! Now, it’s not that we don’t love ALL of you here, email subscriber or not, but we can no longer do giveaways on this platform. If you’ve been around here any length of time, you know what a complete fiasco that has become because of scammers. So, we’re trying it in our weekly emails this year because we love to give back to you guys! ✉️ Also, if anything ever goes wrong with this page (like it did last year when we got hacked) we will still have a way to reach you. ✉️ Subscribe to our email list at the link in our bio.

New mural REVEAL!!! Have you heard the news? We added a huge mural inside our new Adventure Barn!!! Here are a few photos of the process that took Shelley 45 hours of painting over 10 days! We have a super cute new activity planned for the area in front of this 8ft x16ft painting. You can read about that in our latest blog post linked below. We’re working hard to make this our best season yet! Can’t wait to share it all with you!

This week’s *ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK* is 🏀Hillbilly Hoops!🏀 Located on Pumpkin Ridge, this gravity wagon converted into a basketball game is fun for all ages! Hillbilly Hoops is included with our Pumpkin Ridge Pass or Fun Pass. Open from September 7th - October 31st. Closed Tuesdays.

✏️ATTN TEACHERS:✏️ We are now scheduling our educational fall field trips! You’ll want to get on our schedule as early as possible as our dates do fill up. This year you can view our availability and request your date online. Field trips include a cow milking demonstration, calf bottle feeding, dairy diet lesson, petting zoo, hayride, play areas, a mini pumpkin to take home, and more! Comment and let us know if you need the link!

📣Excited to finally reveal the mural we added to our new Adventure Barn! This took 45 hours of painting and many more hours of planning and prep. Stay turned to see what else we have in store for this area. The Adventure Barn and its activities will be included with our Pumpkin Ridge Pass and Fun Pass this fall! 🥳 Our fall festival will be open from September 7th - October 31st. Come see us in Dry Ridge, KY to make your fall memories this year!

Last night we had the honor of being a stop on the Tennessee Agritourism Association’s bus tour! Members enjoyed a meal catered by Browning’s Country Ham while Matt shared info about our farm. Afterward, everyone got a quick tour of our property. Thankfully the weather held out for us. Now hopefully we’ll get some much needed rain today! 🙏

We’re starting something new this week! Since we keep adding new attractions each year, we thought it would be fun to give each one its time to shine. We’ll be highlighting one each week on our social media through our fall season. This week’s *ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK* is our 🎃Pumpkin House Photo Spot🎃. Located on Pumpkin Ridge, this very popular photo spot is perfect for family photos and even engagements (we had at least one here last year)! Pumpkin Ridge Pass or Fun Pass required to access this activity. Open from September 7th - October 31st. Closed Tuesdays.

Good morning! Watch your inbox for an email with a sunflower update today! 🌻

ATTN: HOMESCHOOLERS! Tickets are live for our 2024 Homeschool Farm Tour Days! This year, we are offering $1 off per person for our September tour dates. Our new Adventure Barn (thanks for helping us pick the name!) will be included with your tour experience this year. We look forward to seeing you there. As always, THANK YOU for spreading the word to your friends and homeschool groups. Comment if you need the ticket link!