Summer: It clung to the air, wrapped around Jefferson County’s shoulders like a wool shawl on a sunny morning, to the point that even the most diehard sun-baskers among us could not help but think that maybe a little rain would be nice. And, as if heeding the call of the falling leaves, summer has finally succumbed to the inevitable: the changing of the seasons, bringing with it not just the rain, but the fires to our hearths, the mudboots to our chilly little feet, and yes, pumpkins, the quintessential gourd of autumn.

Entangled in our conscience as the harbinger to the long dark nights of winter to which Halloween serves to commence, the pumpkin is the way-shower, its mere color a faux sun, hollowed out and carved up with a candle in it, grinning, calling us into the darkness.  What lies in the shadowy realms beyond the reach of the flickering glow of this maniacally illuminated fruit? Hopefully pie!!

Here at Red Dog Farm we are staring this fall with an unprecedented variety of autumnal accoutrements that you can take home to celebrate the changing of the seasons. The Farmstand offers not only pie pumpkins, but also beautiful carving pumpkins, tiny multicolored decorative pumpkins, classic cornstalks, and a multitude of whimsical decorative gourds in all sorts of goofy shapes and colors.

We hope you enjoy perusing all the pumpkins of fall – just whatever you do, don’t let Billy Corgan get hold of them.

~Jon