Fall Brings Patriot Football, Apple and Pumpkin Picking

 15 October 2021

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R. Linda:

It be the season when all New England fans descend on Foxboro Stadium in Massachusetts to watch the Patriots in action. I have a couple of times gone to watch preseason training and it is always packed like a real game.

Preseason Patriots

This also signals apple season and in New Hampshire, this be a big deal. There are orchards galore, and you can buy a bag and go pick apples as you dream of apple pie, apple crisp and most of all apple cider doughnuts with real homemade apple cider!

Homemade deliciousness

We go to Windy Hill Orchards in Greenville, New Hampshire to pick apples. If you go in early October and on a weekend, it can be crowded (especially the doughnut and cider stand).

The cider and doughnut stand, freshly made

If you go in late October, you will find most of the apples already picked, but fewer people around. It be ideal to go apple picking on a weekday, but no doughnuts and cider if you do, that be reserved for weekends only.

Bag of luscious Cortlands

One year we ended up at Brookdale Farms in Hollis, N.H. which was not as rural a farm as Windy Hill, but the apples were plentiful, so if you are in the extreme southern part of the state Brookdale be a good place to pick apples AND they have a farm store chocked full of homemade and rare goodies.

On our way to an orchard, we pass many a pumpkin patch. This one be filled every year.

Pumpkin patch, Rt. 101, Amherst, N.H.

Of course, Windy Hill has pumpkins as well and we always buy "Pumpkin Pete" there, after much walking around judging what gourd looks like a Pete!

Windy Hill Pumpkins

Pumpkin Patch at Windy Hill

Me with me two little ones carting off "Pumpkin Pete" and relatives

Of course, there will always be one kiddo that doesn't want to leave

One of our fav things to do at windy hill be the corn maze

The corn maze at Windy Hill be exciting for the wee ones and can be exhausting for the adults when the wee ones think they can lead to the way out. Never happens. However, I love the rustle of the corn stalks sounding like old bones on those times it gets quiet inside the maze.

If there be any oldsters along like me Mam, we take the hayride to the orchard.

At some places there be a wagon pulled by horses, but here be a John Deere tractor.

Windy Hill has goats, chickens, calves, and pigs in a small farm zoo next to the pumpkin patch where the kiddos can feed the animals and have fun while the parents wait in line for hot doughnuts and cider.

Gabe

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