Pick your own... pumpkins!
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Picking your own strawberries is a great British summer
tradition - and now you can pick your own pumpkins.
Mark and Verity Batchelor, who run Beluncle Farm, Hoo, have
grown thousands of the bright orange vegetables in time for
Halloween and the couple and their four children have organised a
Pick Your Own charity fundraiser.
Visitors will be able to wander through row upon row of plants,
spread over an acre, and choose which ever shape and size pumpkin
they want to take home.
Verity, 38, said: "We have grown several thousand pumpkins
especially for this.
"We planted the seeds several months ago and have watched them
grow from yellow to green to orange. The field is now quite a
sight.
"We have all shapes and sizes ranging from small ones you can
make into soup, to big ones you can carve.
"People will be able to walk up and down the rows choosing which
pumpkins they want.
"People we've told about it think it's quite exciting. Most
people are used to seeing pumpkins in the supermarket but they
don't necessarily know how they are grown.
"This will be a chance to come along in your wellies, see how
they grow in the fields and take one home. It will be a bit of
fun."
All the proceeds will be donated to Crohn's and Colitis UK as
Verity and Mark's 10-year-old son Luke was diagnosed with Crohn's
disease when he was eight. It is a inflammatory bowel condition
with no known cure.
Earlier this year Verity ran the London Marathon for Crohn's and
Colitis UK, a charity which has supported the family through Luke's
illness.
Verity said: "When Luke was first diagnosed, Crohn's and Colitis
UK put me in touch with another mum who had a child with
Crohn's.
"She showed me things do get better and there was light at the
end of the tunnel.
"Luke and his three sisters will be out in the field helping
people to choose their pumpkins."
You can pick your own pumpkin at Beluncle Farm, Stoke Road,
Hoo, on Saturday, October 22, and Sunday, October 23, 10am-4pm.
Follow the pumpkins from Kingsnorth roundabout. Call 07522 925012
for more information.
Monday, October 17 2011
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