Pumpkin pickin' @ Buckelew Farms

Unfortunately, this was the best we could get!

Kevin and I started our pumpkin picking tradition at Apple Anne's in Wilcox with his brother and sister-in-law in 2003 when we started dating!  Every year since, we have visited the various farms in southern Arizona to see which one we liked best.  My goal is to make pumpkin picking our annual tradition with the boys.  Kevin has fond memories of picking out a living Christmas tree when he was growing up and for our boys, I hope they have fond memories of our annual pumpkin adventures. 


This weekend we visited Buckelew Farms to find the perfect pumpkin, thanks to some free passes to the farm from my co-worker!  It was like most of the farms with wagon rides to the patch, county-fair type food, jumping castles, and a petting zoo, which alway seems so over-priced.  We had a good time but didn't realize we needed to bring our own cutters to retrieve our perfect pumpkin from the patch and by the time we had picked and bought our pumpkins the place was teaming with people.  The boys really liked to ride the covered wagon (pulled by a tractor) to the patch. Brandon picked out a white pumpkin and they each got a small pumpkin that we will decorate with paint and stickers!


Having been to all the other "patches" in the Tucson area, my favorite is still in Wilcox (Apple Anne's) but since we haven't been there in a few years, it may be just as overly busy and over-priced as the rest.  They used to not charge for parking, you could pick other fruit/vegetables, and had other farm goods to purchase.  Hopefully the next time we visit, it will be like it used to...