I was unsure whether we'd visit a pumpkin farm in 2020 because I doubted we'd be able to keep our distance, but a neighbor told me about Kroll's Fall Harvest Farm in Waukegan. Kroll's was offering timed entry tickets to help make social distancing possible and avoid crowds. We visited on Halloween at the 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. time slot. With timed tickets, you can visited during those hours only. We ... Read more
Quick Stop at Joe Huber’s Family Farm in Indiana
We made a last minute decision to drive down to Louisville, Kentucky, for the weekend to visit Graham's parents. To break up the drive back on Sunday we decided to check out Joe Huber's Family Farm & Restaurant, which is about 40 minutes outside of Louisville. We had our dog, Capone, so we couldn't do all of the activities, but we wanted the girls to pick up little pumpkins and I wanted ... Read more
Fall Fun at Siegel’s Cottonwood Farm | Chicago
Each year we choose a different farm for our pumpkin picking adventure. Now that Graham finally has weekends off, we could start to do ALL the fall things. This year we went to Siegel's Cottonwood Farm, which is at least an hour drive from where we live in Chicago. We got there about an hour and a half after it opened, and the line was filling up to buy tickets. The farm seemed to ... Read more
Pumpkin Picking at Didier Farms
I have been longing to pick pumpkins all month, but we decided to wait until Victoria arrived to go. When Graham suddenly found himself with a Sunday morning and early afternoon available, we headed to Didier Farms in Lincolnshire, about a 40 minute drive from where we live in Chicago. It was in the high 60s/low 70s, the perfect conditions for a visit to the pumpkin patch. It was a busy morning at ... Read more
A Day at All Seasons Apple Orchard & Pumpkin Patch
I crossed off several fall bucket list items over the weekend: drink apple cider, go to a pumpkin patch, get lost in a corn maze and visit an apple orchard. All Seasons Apple Orchard in Woodstock, about an hour and half drive from Chicago, had all of those activities and more. But, I must admit, my favorite thing to do at the orchard was eat. Graham and I shared an apple-cider doughnut, apple ... Read more