Fall Harvest Festival
at 7010 East Raymond Street
Dates of 2010 Fall Harvest Festival are:
September 25 - October 31, Pumpkin smash on November 6
Hours for 2010: 9 am - 7pm on weekdays and 10 am - 7 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. 7 pm is the time for the last admission so that you will be able to enjoy the activities by 8 pm which is when we close down our facility.
Admission price is $5 per person (no admission charge for children 2 and younger) on weekdays and $6 per person on weekends.
Included in your admission are:
- a farm tour hayride to the pumpkin patch where you may select from acres of pumpkins
- a walk through our two cornfield mazes--the first involves some decision-making as to whether to go forward or backward, right or left; the second involves the same type of decision-making and is longer and more complicated.
- enjoying Tyranny, our pumpkin-eating ty"rascal"asaurus who roars as she chomps on pumpkins and chunks splat to the ground
- farm animals to visit
- straw mountain for the big kids to climb on and straw hill for the smaller kids
- tricycle trail with really nifty pedal vehicles to ride (for 10 years old and younger)
- live entertainment on Saturdays and Sundays including a clown and bands (see music schedule below)
- Again this year is Bouncy Barnstorm, with a 30' slide and a castle in which to bounce up & down. It makes a fun time for everybody!
Also available:
- pumpkins or try our "All you can carry challenge". One person must carry the pumpkins and take 5 steps without dropping any.
- Our very largest pumpkins, called Prizewinners
- pony rides from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on weekdays, from 10:00 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. on weekends and by scheduling in advance for groups
- rock wall, gyroscope, Vortex and bungie jump on Saturdays and Sundays
- on Saturdays and Sundays, food to enjoy while you are here
- mums, straw bales, corn stalks, and gourds
Dates for 2010 are TBA.
Music and Special Events Schedule for 2009
Date |
Music noon - 5 p.m. |
Special Events |
Saturday Sept. 26 |
Hogeye Irregulars |
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Sunday Sept.27 |
Wally Berry |
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Saturday Oct. 3 |
Steve Jeffers |
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Sunday Oct. 4 |
Lathan & Lathan |
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Saturday Oct. 10 |
Three Bean Salad |
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Sunday Oct. 11 |
Witch Hazel Valley Boys |
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Saturday Oct. 17 |
Circle City Bluegrass Band |
6 - 9 p.m. Barn Dance Led by Mac Bellner, this event is a must for families. If a barn can dance, so can you! Followed by a moonlit hayride |
Sunday Oct. 18 |
Blackberry Jam |
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Saturday October 24 |
Hogeye Navvy |
11 am - 3 pm ICE AGE in 3-D Come and share the excitement of the release of the third Ice Age Movie! Glow Sticks for all the kids Join the Scavenger Hunt and win a DVD pack of Ice Age Movies. |
Sunday October 25 |
Island BreezeI |
11 am - 3 pm ICE AGE in 3-D Come and share the excitement of the release of the third Ice Age Movie! Glow Sticks for all the kids Join the Scavenger Hunt and win a DVD pack of Ice Age Movies. |
Saturday October 17 Old-Fashioned Barn Dance
beginning at 6 p.m.
Bring the whole family for this very special evening
full of music, dancing and all-'round frivolity.
Music and dance calling is provided by Mac Bellner and her band
and anyone can follow the simple traditional dances.
Come for the fun, come for the fellowship, come for the music.
We'll round the evening out with a hayride in the moonlight.
At Waterman's Farm Market, Greenwood, we cater to families and small educational groups of 5 - 20 kids, e.g. Scouts and home schooling groups. Please call 626-0520 to schedule your group. You can:
- pick a pie pumpkin from the vine
- put together an Indian corn collage
- put on a scarecrow theater puppet show for your own audience
- cuddle up with a book in our reading nook
- walk through our Scarecrow Gallery
- play in our corn kernel sandbox
- have some outdoor free-play in our simple forts
These activities are also available to families (who need not schedule) but who are invited to: make and take a scarecrow; bring a blanket and a picnic lunch; carve your pumpkin and leave the mess; spend family time in a low key setting where you can make memories to treasure.
Greenwood Farm hours are:
Monday - Friday 10 - 5, Saturday 10 - 7, Sunday 12 - 7.
For information about birthday parties, company picnics or other special events in October, please click on the "Parties and Picnics" icon or call Lindsey.
317-460-6414
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In October, Indianapolis and central Indiana can expect the Fall Harvest Festival to be a family event where everyone can have a great time! We offer pumpkins and tractor-drawn, narrated hayrides to the pumpkin patch where you may select from acres of pumpkins.
Tyranny is our huge pumpkin-eating Tyrannosaurus Rex. Watch your children's eyes light with excitement as she roars and chomps on a pumpkin while the chunks fall to the ground with a splat!
We offer our ever-popular 1,500-square foot strawbale maze, characterized by dark pathways and deadends. It is sure to be a great time for the soon-to-be cave explorers in the family, and large enough for most adults to crawl through, too.
There are two cornfield mazes which are always a test of patience and skill to overcome. The first maze offers opportunity to choose the path forward, to the right or to the left, but all paths lead out of the maze. The second maze is more difficult. There are several paths from which to choose and eventually one can get out of the maze, however it can be a challenge even for some adults.
Again this year is Bouncy Barnstorm, a 30' slide and a castle in which to bounce up & down. It makes a fun time for everybody!
For your equestrian lovers in the family, we offer pony rides. There are farm animals to visit as well.
We have developed a feature for the younger members of your family...the Waterman's Tricycle Track! We have a variety of small pedal-powered tricycles and a wooden-bordered race track for them to have fun!
Each weekend we have live music to entertain you (see schedule above) and clowns who perform all kinds of curious tricks and jok
es to make you laugh, or possibly they can make you a balloon animal to take home with you.
Amazing food concessions, featuring Indiana breaded tenderloins, BBQ ribs and sandwiches, curly fries, funnel cakes, hot dogs and bratwurst, cheesecake, coffee and cider, cookies and many more menu items are available on weekends.
If you're getting tired of those pesky crows...then scare them! With an original Waterman's Make-and Take Scarecrow. We provide all the necessary tools, clothing and, of course, straw to stuff him/her. It only takes your imagination to finish the rest.
We offer fall decorating items including pumpkins of various sizes from miniature to large, gourds, corn stalk bundles, strawbales, Indian corn and mums. You may want to participate in the "all you can carry" challenge. It is advisable for the person with the longest arms and strongest back to be the carrier. Another person can load the pumpkins on the carrier; the carrier must take five steps, then you pay $30 for all the pumpkins carried.
