10/14/2009 10:00:00 PM
'Peter's Pumpkin Patch' revives Young's Farm tradition
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The Daily Courier
The on-again, off-again status of pumpkins at the former Young's Farm is on again.
Though an earlier dispute challenged the annual October tradition of picking pumpkins at harvest time, the Town of Dewey-Humboldt officially approved a special event permit on Tuesday to revive the pumpkins.
Peter's Pumpkin Patch, as it's now known, is open seven days a week from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. through Nov. 1. Almost 10 acres of pumpkins attached to the vine are available for picking, as are hay rides, an eight-acre corn maze and a mini-maze for younger kids, among other attractions.
In the mid-1980s, Young's Farm began its Dewey-based pumpkin festival, which quickly became an autumn tradition for residents of Yavapai County and North Phoenix. The Young family sold the land and relocated to Oregon, which marked the end of the festival in 2006.
After some paperwork wrangling, a couple of longtime caretakers of the farming property dedicated themselves to bringing the tradition back this month.
"Old Farmer Buzz" Fournier, who has been on site since 1995, and Peter Kosc, longtime manager of old Young's Farm and manager of the current property, teamed up to revive the harvest in 2009.
"Everything is farm-oriented instead of the festival that we used to have at Young's," Fournier said Wednesday.
The entrance fee is $5, and kids 2 and younger are free.
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Posted: Thursday, October 22, 2009
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Emily
where is the event at? does anybody have directions to give?
Posted: Saturday, October 17, 2009
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No name provided
It will be nice when they do approve a plan by the developer for the property that is sensible. Growth is inevitable, but its’ growing wisely in a way that the community wants is important. Not the way a developer wants in order to create their personal dynasty. I am glad the town will not just let them build some monstrosity housing community like you would find in PHX. I even heard that the town may have a trails commission… or something to that effect. This would be great! I feel if they want to attract and have a more affluent, educated demographic in that region then they need to develop in a way that would attract them. I at least hope the Dewey-Humboldt’s town counsel will not sell their souls and values to the developer with the highest pay offs.
Posted: Friday, October 16, 2009
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Esther
If we go to this event, does it support the housing developers? I have no desire to support the destruction of more farmland by developers.
Posted: Friday, October 16, 2009
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No name provided
TO SPEEDY GONZALES: THE ORIGINAL YOUNG FAMILY HAS BEEN GONE FOR YEARS. STOP BEATING UP ON THEM WHEN THEY AREN'T HERE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.
Posted: Friday, October 16, 2009
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Speedy Gonzales
To "Loves Young's Farm" I had a friend who worked there years ago. When they ran out of their corn, they went to Albertsons and bought it; year after year, more and more. Grow up
Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
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No name provided
And the Young's were run out of town. Shame.
Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
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Taylor
This was so much fun! We went today and it is a scaled down version of what Young's used to be, but it is a great way to experience Autumn none the less!! The family who is running it now seems to be so friendly and helpful, and during the hay rides they stop to tell funny stories and get the kids involved. I would highly recommend this to ANYBODY, kids or not, we definitely need to support things like this! I know I was devastated when I heard that the land was being sold to housing developers, pieces of land and history like this are rare, and it is great that they are back and running!!! Please show your support by going - they are open everyday not just on the weekends, you will have a blast! Oh, I truly am just someone who went today, not affiliated with the farm at all, my family and I just had so much fun, I had to tell everybody!
Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
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What a commendable thing for the two gentle men to do for the community. God bless them.
Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
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Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
Article comment by:
Linda
This is wonderful!!!
Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
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Central AZ Dweller
Let's go support this. Most of us were devastated to see this long-standing tradition go away. Let's keep it going again. Sure beats seeing another housing subdivision there!!
Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
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Loves Youngs farm
I miss Youngs farm very much and their delicious corn, but I am grateful for the pumpkins to be back - in this economy no one is building new houses so why not farm the place until they deem it is a better time to build.
Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
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The Devil Guy
Good lord, when are they finally going to tear out the pumpkins and built, built, built! Just like Phoenix, Prescott has now adopted the mind set, "If it is historical, tear it down". What a bunch of rubes...
Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
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