Fall is here, and I absolutely love this time of year! It feels almost magical watching the leaves change to bright reds, oranges, and yellows, and I love the sound of leaves crunching under my feet when I take a walk. Of course, I will admit, I hate raking leaves, that is one of the only bummers about this season. Thus far this season, we haven’t made it out to pick apples, but we did continue our yearly tradition of getting pumpkins at Y Worry Farm in Davidsonville, MD. We have been buying our pumpkins here for several years now, and my kids always have a ton of fun, especially if friends join us. Y Worry is on Davidsonville Road / 424 just north of route 50, on the west side of the road. Going south on 424, you make a right onto Rossback Rd, and then the first left into the farm. There is plenty of parking, and portable toilets. The farm also provides wagons for people to put their pumpkins in so they don’t have to try to carry them out of the rolling fields.
This year, not only were our friends able to join us, but my parents as well. It was a beautiful afternoon, with a brisk wind blowing. The kids stopped to see the baby goats, but didn’t linger. They wanted to find their pumpkins, and this year Stormy was determined to get the biggest one yet. My husband pulled the wagon over to the lower field, and the kids spread out to hunt down the perfect pumpkin. Pebble found hers the fastest, she saw one she liked, and she didn’t change her mind, just like last year. Stormy also found a large one she liked, but then found an even bigger one that we maneuvered into the wagon. Rainbow took her time to visit every corner of the field looking for the one that spoke to her. By the time she’d selected her pumpkin, our friends had also arrived at the field, and, between our families, we had 8 kids ranging the fields. My kids helped their friends find the their pumpkins before they set off to explore.
In addition to the pick-your-own pumpkin fields and the check-out tent near the parking lot, there is a concession stand selling things like popcorn and cider, a coop full of chickens to visit, the aforementioned baby goats, a corn maze, and a tower of hay bales to climb. In between the upper and lower pumpkin fields, the farm has also constructed an enormous teepee made of corn stalks, perfect to hide in. This year, the kids discovered a random pumpkin sitting in the middle of one of the paths near the teepee. When they moved it, they found that it was blocking a large hole that could have been a den for some type of animal. The older kiddos had an intense discussion about what type of animal it could be…
Once we’d rolled our wagons down out of the pumpkin fields, the kids set off to “lose” themselves in the corn maze. It isn’t a big maze and there are only a few dead ends, but it is one of the kids’ top favorite things to do at Y Worry. Pebble loves it, and we wandered through, following her sisters. The kids were happy to dart in and out of the maze over and over again, but Pebble went through it only twice before heading for the tower of hale bales. Like last year, she climbed to the top, and started throwing loose hay into the air. She also gathered loose hay, snuck up on her godmother and grandparents and showered them with hay before running off giggling.
By the time we rounded the kids up to head home, Pebble was covered in hay and carrying a corn cob Rainbow had given her. Rainbow had picked a few corn cobs from the maze on her many trips through it, and she gave one to the chickens in the coop, but those chickens showed little interest in her gift as they were rolling in corn cobs. Everyone visiting the farm was dropping cobs into the coop. Rainbow decided to save a cob for the squirrels at home. Stormy was worn out from running amuck with her friends through the fields and the maze, but happy to see what pumpkins her grandparents had purchased to decorate their front stoop back home. There are stacks of smaller pumpkins piled near the check-out desk for those that don’t want to get one of the bigger varieties out in the fields. Stormy, especially, liked the white ones as she didn’t realize pumpkins could be other colors than orange! It was, as always, a fun afternoon, full of memories at a local farm. If you don’t make it here to pick pumpkins, they also sell Christmas trees in December! Happy trails!
