The Pumpkin Patch at Richmond Country Farms

**Dont forget your boots!** Conclusion: not worth 18$.

This year's patch was pretty plain. There was no train, not much music and very little decorations. Just a corn maze and an area with dead flowers from the previous event, the sunflower festival. I understand this may have been because of COVID but, the price was the same as last year $18. There is definitely ways to provide entertainment in a space that large with social distancing and precautions.

Really great for young children and families. There are flower patches and old trucks and trailers that are set up for fun photos for kids. There are 2 mazes - a sunflower and corn maze. There are a few places to get food on the grounds. There's also normally a live band dressed up in vegetable outfits, but they've opted to cancel that for 2020 amid the pandemic. All in all, a great place to spend a few hours. It gets really muddy though, so make sure you bring rubber boots! There's also the farmers market at the entrance if you want to do some shopping afterwards.

We had a ball of a time! This place was fun from beginning to end. We ordered our tickets online and got a time slot for when we could arrive. There were few people there, and there were pumpkins a plenty. Make sure you pick a pumpkin that is not lying in the mud, but rather, the drier grass. The wagon ride was a blast, and we brought our own wagon for the kids from home (which you can collapse and bring onto the big wagon). Mini donuts, coffee, tons of haunted decor...so much fun. A warning: WEAR OLD CLOTHES AND FOOTWEAR! It's crazy muddy, but a ton of fun.

The price is pretty great for all the things you get to do, $12 for an adult, which includes a pumpkin. There were a lot of great photo opportunities, and COVID regulations were in place wonderfully. We had a great time! The only downside was that it was hard to find pumpkins that weren't rotting, and this was early October. The pumpkins we did take home were covered in aphids which ended up getting all over my bathroom when we washed them. The pumpkins also ended up rotting and growing mold within 2 days of having them, so they aren't carvable and won't last until Halloween.