Every year I pack up the clan in the Family Truckster and head out to the wilds of Pomona to buy our share of $4 pumpkins grown by the Cal Poly Pomona's College of Agriculture.
The pumpkins are out in a field, just like in real life, instead of a vacant lot recently redecorated to look like a field (and soon to be a Christmas tree lot.)
There are no carts available, so people bring large wagons, bags, and stolen grocery carts into the acreage, overload them, then try desperately to make it back to the student volunteers at the front to pay for them. $4 for any size.
Did I mention it's hot? It's in Pomona, so it's usually 75 degrees hotter than the rest of LA. That's what makes it an adventure. Hey, anyone can go to Trader Joe's to pick out their pumpkin, but it takes a certain kind of person to try to push wobbly-wheeled shopping cart filled with 120 pounds of winter squash through a recently plowed field. Which is why it's one of the few places in LA that is considered a Celebrity-Free Zone.
It's this Saturday and Sunday. All the info is available at at the CSU Pomona site.
Oh, and there's a Pancake Breakfast and a Petting Zoo for those of you who share breakfast food with miniature goats.
That's something recently outlawed at those vacant lot pumpkin patches.
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