Glass Pumpkin Patches – Do You Believe in Magic?
Some people are wild about Autumn. They love the weather, leaves turning colors and falling to the ground, the smell of apple cider from the Fall crop of fresh-picked apples, and most of all they love pumpkins.
Pumpkins come in many sizes, shapes and colors and are used in Thanksgiving table top decor; as light beacons, carved with with scary faces to welcome trick or treaters to your door; and for eating: as in pumpkin pie, decadent pumpkin bisque soup, or in a specialty batch of pumpkin ice cream from B&R or Trader Joe’s.
Shopping for pumpkins is as much fun as owning them. Pumpkin patch businesses and farmers have created an entire entertainment genre complete with kiddie train rides, petting zoos, fun houses, corn mazes and even live music.
The pumpkin craze has become such a large part of our American heritage and symbols of Fall holidays (Halloween & Thanksgiving) that it’s no wonder another industry has grown out of the desire for pumpkins last forever. Artists have found a way to preserve the pumpkin symbolically and they’ve created their very own festivals to promote sales of their pumpkin products.
In California, the wildly popular glass pumpkin patch has become an annual tradition for many who are mesmerized by, and collectors of miniature art objects shaped like pumpkins, made of blown glass.
2018 Glass Pumpkin Patch Crop
- CARMEL: Sept.15-16
- HALF MOON BAY: Art & Pumpkin Festival Oct.13-14
- LOS GATOS: Sept.22-23
- SAN JOSE: Santana Row Oct.5-7
