Many families eagerly await this colourful time of year, desperate to show off their spooky costumes and pumpkin extravaganzas. Well, the time has finally come and it is to no surprise that the pumpkin craze has begun once again. 

 

The Riverside Farmers at Beluncle Farm, Medway, know all too well the excitement that these bright orange fruits bring to Halloween lovers. As a family farming business, they specialise in growing pumpkins, squashes and globe artichokes and aim to deliver products ‘bursting with colour, taste and freshness’.

 

During the October month, the farm kindly opens its gates to an annual Pick Your Own Pumpkin event – an unmissable opportunity to explore this pumpkin paradise. Visitors are able to journey through the fields and choose from a vast range of pumpkins which ones will look best illuminated on their front doorstep!

 

Serena Self, 15, a regular visitor to the farm says, “I think it is so much fun to pick them yourself rather than going to the shops. It doesn’t cost any more, so my family love it.” But what is it that actually brings people back each year? Helen Flowers, 48, is one of the many annual attenders. “I thoroughly enjoy picking my own pumpkins and it’s lovely to see all the excited children running around, desperate to find the best pumpkin.”

 

It is evident from the crowds of people pouring into the farm every day that the public is truly pumpkin obsessed and that we simply just can’t get enough of them!

 

Grace Flowers - Young Reporters