Patrons coming right from a hayride or a day picking pumpkins will feel comfortable.

Like picking pumpkins or going on a hayride, or learning how the Indians made the arrowheads found in these very fields.

"But they come here and pick pumpkins and see how stuff grows."

Last Halloween, they all drove to rural Connecticut to pick pumpkins and apples.

A farmers' market thrives in season, and farms invite customers to pick their own strawberries, apples and pumpkins.

But almost all of them have picked pumpkins.

And children can pick pumpkins, take a hayride or wander through a variety of mazes.

We wouldn't take hayrides out on the farms and pick fresh pumpkins off the vines.

Guests can pick blueberries and raspberries and, in the fall, pumpkins.

Last year was great," he said, "I was picking pumpkins right up until the 29th of October.