Some events will also feature tractor rides, family entertainment and food
Throughout the month various locations will give visitors the chance to pick their own pumpkins.(Image: Creative Touch Imaging Ltd / NurPhoto / Getty Images)
A host of pumpkin picking events are scheduled to take place across in and around Leicester this October.
Many events are offering much more than the chance to pick your own pumpkin, with tractor rides, farm animals, mazes, food and family entertainment also on offer.
Some events will give visitors the chance to select pumpkins in a variety of sizes. With events spread across the county from Coalville and Kibworth to Loughborough, it is likely you won’t have far to travel far if you want to join in the autumn fun.
Here are the activities we know about so far for Halloween and pumpkin picking. To have your public event added to the list, email jasmine.siddon@reachplc.com
Broom Leys Farm
Visitors will be able to choose their own pumpkins at the patch in Broom Leys Farm, located in Broom Leys Road, Coalville. The event will host tractor trailer rides, fair ground rides, a corn maze, a petting farm, food vendors and more.
It will be open during weekends from Saturday, October 4. The farm will be open for four weekdays during the October half term starting from Tuesday, October 20.
Tickets are available on the Broom Leys Farm website priced at £6.29 per adult and child. A family ticket can be purchased for £20.96 which includes two adults and two children, while those under the age of two can visit for free.
Cattows Farm Halloween Farm
Cattows Farm, in Swepstone Road, Heather, is hosting its annual Halloween Farm event which started on Saturday, September 26.
The site in Coalville grows more than 100,000 pumpkins with family entertainment including farmyard golf, a Halloween circus and a harvest tractor ride just some of the activities running this year.
People will be able to visit until Sunday, November 1, with some weekday dates available to book towards the end of October.
Tickets are available via the Halloween Farm website with access to the patch starting from £6 per person. Access to all attractions is priced at £29.99 each.
Oscar’s Pumpkin Patch at Elms Farm
Oscar’s Pumpkin Patch at Elms Farm, in Leake Road, Costock, will have more than 42 varieties of pumpkins ready to be picked on its patch.
The Loughborough farm will also have a haunted house, tractor rides, food and more. Attendees can step inside the spooky maze for £6.50 per person.
Entry to the pumpkin patch is free, with pumpkins priced according to size from £2 to £10.
The patch will be open from 10am to 4pm this Saturday, October 3.
Wymeswold Fruit Farm
Wymeswold Fruit Farm, in Wide Lane, Wymeswold, Loughborough, will open its pumpkin patch from Saturday, October 10.
Families can head into the patch to pick from thousands of home-grown pumpkins in a range of sizes.
Visitors can also pick up a free goody bag which will contain everything needed for pumpkin carving plus a sweet treat.
Pumpkin picking will be available from 10am until 5pm and the event will run to Saturday, October 31. Entry into the farm is £3 per person if aged over 14.
Windmill Farm Park
During weekends throughout the month Windmill Farm Park Halloween Spooktacular, in Langton Road, Kibworth Harcourt, will host a potion making workshop as well as spooky crafts.
Children will also be able to enjoy tractor rides, partake in the witches hat parade and walk through the cobweb maze, as well as choosing a pumpkin from the patch.
As well as weekends, the event will run daily from Saturday, October 17, to Saturday, October 31.
Entry costs £13.95 per adult and £19.95 per child, while children up to 23 months can go for free.
A pumpkin package can be added to any ticket for £9.95 which includes a witches hat, scroll, boo bucks, a medium pumpkin, a take-home craft and entry to the potion workshop and witches hat parade.
