{"id":258,"date":"2012-09-28T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summerfunguide.ca\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2021-09-25T06:57:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T06:57:38","slug":"celebrating-halloween-at-a-farm-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summerfunguide.ca\/blog\/celebrating-halloween-at-a-farm-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Halloween At A Farm In The City!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b12171e95ca29a06569361a76d0dc3e3\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6144103376590397\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to believe but Fall is here and Halloween is just a little over a month away.\u00a0 This is one of my favorite times of year, the heat of the summer is gone but the bitter winter cold hasn\u2019t hit yet.\u00a0 It is the perfect time to go pick up your pumpkin for Halloween and I know the perfect place for you to do that and you can bring the whole family!<\/p>\n<p>Whittamore\u2019s Berry Farm was not what I expected and that is why it was so great. I have been to plenty of berry farms and pumpkin patches but I had never been to a place like this.\u00a0 My goal had been to quickly check out Whittamore\u2019s, help my nephew pick out the perfect pumpkin, and head home but once I arrived I knew my plan was out the window.<\/p>\n<p>Let me start by saying that Whittamore\u2019s is not far outside of Downtown Toronto.\u00a0 It took me about 30 minutes to get there with no traffic. It is a farm that is practically in the city, which is unusual anywhere you go these days. It is open 7 days a week from September 15 through to Halloween from 10am to 5pm.<\/p>\n<p>It hadn\u2019t been my idea to come to Whittamore\u2019s Berry Farm.\u00a0 My Sister had called me and asked if I wanted to go with her and my Nephew to pick out a pumpkin for Halloween. They had gone last year and had a blast.\u00a0 So I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to check it out and not look too weird if I happen to squeal with excitement in the corn maze.<\/p>\n<p>The game plan was to wait until we were done seeing everything else at Whittamore\u2019s Berry Farm before we picked our pumpkin.\u00a0 It wouldn\u2019t be fun to carry a big pumpkin everywhere.\u00a0 The first stop was to see the animals. My nephew is almost six and at the perfect age to enjoy seeing and feeding the farm animals. He loved the baby cows and had a blast.\u00a0 To be honest so did his mom and I.<\/p>\n<p>We stopped and watched the pedal tractor track but my nephew was a little old to be on those and he was not interested in regressing after he had learned to ride a bike.\u00a0 So we moved on to the two-story tree fort, which ended up being his second favorite adventure at Whittamore\u2019s. Attached to the fort is the Strawberry Mountain Turbo Slide, which my nephew went down at least 10 times.<\/p>\n<p>After the tree fort it was time to take it up a notch and we went and saw Farmer Frank\u2019s Pumpkin Cannon Show.\u00a0 The show is only on the weekends and only 3 times a day. We hadn\u2019t known about it beforehand but we heard the boom of the cannon and had to check it out.\u00a0 The Pumpkin Cannon Show became my nephew\u2019s favorite thing at Whittamore\u2019s and to be honest it was probably mine too. Who wouldn\u2019t like to see pumpkins traveling hundreds of feet in the air after being shot out of a giant cannon? It was awesome.<\/p>\n<p>My Sister and I could tell my Nephew was getting a little worn out after all the excitement so we decided to skip the corn maze, he had been through it the year before, and take a nice wagon ride through the spooky forest. It was fun and it gave us all a chance to wind down a little before we started our pumpkin search.<\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds, if not thousands, of pumpkins lined up at Whittamore\u2019s Berry Farm just waiting to be picked up by kids and parents. We spent about 30 minutes before we found the \u201cperfect pumpkin\u201d. It was huge and didn\u2019t have any dents or marks on it.\u00a0 It was a perfect ending to a great day at \u201cthe farm in the city\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>For more info on Whittamore\u2019s Berry Farm you can visit their website whittamoresfarm.com and to see other farms and pumpkin patches in Ontario you can visit Summer Fun Guide\u2019s site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summerfunguide.ca\">www.summerfunguide.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to believe but Fall is here and Halloween is just a little over a month away.\u00a0 This is one of my favorite times of year, the heat of the summer is gone but the bitter winter cold hasn\u2019t hit yet.\u00a0 It is the perfect time to go pick up your pumpkin for Halloween&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greater-toronto-area"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerfunguide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerfunguide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerfunguide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerfunguide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerfunguide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerfunguide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3516,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerfunguide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerfunguide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerfunguide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerfunguide.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}