To celebrate this Halloween, Broadditch Farm in Southfleet organised a PYO (pick your own) Pumpkin Patch event throughout October.
Across a 3-acre site, families can walk around the patch and take pumpkins of all sorts of shapes and sizes home to decorate for the holiday, with prices range from 50p to £7.
The field's setting also allows for many photo opportunities.
Many visitors like to snap the picturesque, natural scenery, as well as with the themed face-in-the-hole boards.
All ages, children and adults alike, can enjoy the fresh air and autumnal atmosphere.
The PYO Pumpkin Patch began 3 years ago.
Before the formation of this event, Broadditch Farm ran a busy scare attraction for Halloween, but unfortunately, COVID-19 put it on hold and prevented it from ever starting up again.
From then on, staff had been growing pumpkins for the farm shop, which later contributed to the PYO Pumpkin Patch.
It was a slow start-up, but overtime grew more popular and gradually became a significant activity.
The farm now grows around 30,000 various pumpkins and squashes for the event, and the money helps support the farm's finances.
There are over 7 types available to buy at the pumpkin patch, including fortune squash, dumpling squash, and Turk's turbans.
Here is what a visitor at the farm said:
"I went to Broadditch Farm the day before Halloween to get some pumpkins for carving. I didn't know what to expect, but I found it really fun! The simplicity of going out into a field was actually quite fun and it's good that there are activities like this for the whole family to go out together. Even though Halloween might be less popular nowadays, the pumpkin patch can be seen as an autumn event rather than just for Halloween. It was also interesting to see all the strange types of pumpkins that had been grown. It's a nice, interactive, relaxed session that I'd recommend for everyone."
In addition to the PYO Pumpkin Patch, the farm offers other experiences such as pumpkin carving workshops and a spooky trailer ride through a Halloween-themed track, which will occur as usual this time next year.
