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By TYLER RALEY | Staff Writer

HARPERSVILLE – A couple of weekends into pumpkin patch season, Old Baker Farm is readying its property for the first of its special-themed weekends for the public to experience and enjoy.

From Oct. 11-12 will be able to experience the farm’s annual Cowboy Day celebration, one that will see locals be able to participate in activities centered around cowboys while picking a pumpkin or two just in time for the fall season.

Owned by Jerry and Pam Baker, Old Baker Farm put on its first pumpkin patch in 1998 to help the two operate through financial struggles that the farm was going through. It first allowed just school field trips to attend the patch in an experimental phase, but in 1999, the patch was opened up to the public for all to attend.

Since that time, the pumpkin patch has been put on on a yearly basis, with exception of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic took place. It has carried themes with it, including Cowboy Day, which has become a local favorite.

During Cowboy Day, locals can take a stroll through Tombstone, see mock live-action shootouts, enjoy the bluegrass band Big Canoe Creek and more. There is also a cotton bounce for children to play in, a hay mountain, corn maze, barn animals and a trackless train ride for all to enjoy.

Tombstone is a mock settlement that the farm has that helps teach attendees about Old West history with attractions like a saloon, a general store, casket maker, undertaker and a telegraph office.

Old Baker Farm opened its pumpkin patch for 2025 on Sept. 27, with two weekends of normal service already complete. This weekend and the next two weekends to follow each have themes associated with them, before the patch completes its last day of service on Friday, Oct. 31.

From Oct. 18-19, Old Baker Farm will host American History Weekend, where residents can come to learn from American War demonstrations and reenactments, while also enjoying living history events around the farm and visit with the Southeastern American Indian Camp.

Then, on the final weekend of the patch, the farm will host Festival weekend, which will see the patch full of shop vendors, live music, a carnival inspired by the 1800s and more.

The pumpkin patch costs $13 per person to get in, and children 1 and under get in free. It is open weekdays from 3-5 p.m., on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sundays from 1-5 p.m.

More information on Old Baker Farm’s pumpkin patch can be found on the farm’s website at Oldbakerfarm.com/pages/the-pumpkin-patch.