The Great Pumpkin Farm

fun time but bring your wallet not cheap.

Very fall-​esque place to visit in Buffalo! Great for the beginning of fall and untill it gets too cold. Went here on a weekday afternoon, and they didn’t have too much going on as they probably get a lot of their crowds on the weekends. The farm has your typical hay rides, corn maze, rides for the kids, and a petting zoo with goats and alpacas. They have a TON of pumpkins. Be sure to stop by the store for some baked goods also!

UM I have not been here since I was a child, and holy smokes how times have changed. Another example of me being old! What the heck!
$ 7 just to walk in? It used to be free back in the good old days. What does this $ 7 even get me? I can look at things, I cannot touch them, I can watch people do fun things, but if I want to participate in anything fun, I have to pay even more! This would be like an amusement park charging their admission prices and then charging you additional fees for every ride or attraction you want to have fun on. What a fun sucking pumpkin farm.
I am still in college, thus I am your typical broke college student. I do work, but it is not enough for me to spend a katrillion galleons at The Great Pumpkin Farm. If they had magical things, such as literally anything from Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes, I would have enjoyed it so much more (sorry, not relevant, I just like Harry Potter). I guess there is a «free» hayride, but it is included in the cost of admission so it isn’t really free. Those buggers.
Pumpkins here are priced by the pound, so they end up costing an outrageous amount. Go to Tops or Wegmans and buy cheaper pumpkins of the same quality.
Good place to bring kids, because there is a lot for them to do. However, be prepared to spend! The children will want to do everything that seems fun to them (so, everything here), and you’ll need money for all of it. The Great Pumpkin Farm is now a big money pit, and I officially sound like a wrinkly old lady that belongs in a nursing home because, «times were better when I was younger.» Okay I’m done.

We look forward to this trip every year. It’s a sign that fall is here and so are the festivities.
Pros: You need a pumpkin? They got ‘em! Lots of fall-​related decorations that my wife was excited about. Your wife will probably be pretty excited this stuff too. Apparently our front porch would be boring without mums. There are also a bunch of rides and food vendors. Finally, there is a ton of parking! Easy in and out.
Cons: A bit pricey to just get in. Call me cheap, but paying $ 7 (adult price) to get into the place that requires you to pay for additional activities is annoying. Sure, they give you a bunch of coupons to use within, but most of them are useless to kid-​less adults. Probably good for little ones, though.
Overall: Celebrate fall at the Great Pumpkin Farm. There are rides for kids, a corn maze for the family, delicious food for all, and more pumpkins than you could ever carve!

We go to the pumpkin farm every to buy a bunch of pumpkins and things. Well we went there Sunday. With $ 150 do buy a bunch and there wouldn’t let us in with out buying tickets to there fair. Never again will I go there. Nor will I let anyone I know go there. Don’t go there!!!

This is a must-​go-​to during Autumn in Buffalo. If for nothing else, just to see the giant pumpkins they have!
I enjoy going on a weekend, despite the 5 dollar entrance fee. Its just a humble place with tons of things to look at. On the weekend they have tons of carnival eats in the back, like fried dough, pizza, Italian sausage, etc. They have some rides, a bit rickety looking, but still a good place to let your kids blow off some energy. Each weekend has different events, I always grab the season’s guide while I’m at the Wegmans check out. I had a blast once blowing off mini pumpkins in this gun, and I’ve done the hayride a few times.
You have to grab some pie and cider from inside. I’m not a pie person, so I usually grab a donut. The people working are super nice. They have a HUGE gift shop full of Halloween décor which I always love to go through. Its usually pretty crowded on the weekends so plan accordingly.
To be honest, I don’t buy my pumpkins here. They can get to be super expensive, considering Walmart and Wegmans sell pumpkins in those bins for like 3 – 6 dollars a piece regardless of size. And pumpkins here can cost you like 17 $ if you want a bigger one. They do have hand-​painted ones, though. Which can be super cute for a front porch or some sort of gift.
I love it here, regardless of high prices. Its just a fun little thing to do on an Autumn Saturday.

(Side note: someday, Unilocal,I hope you give us the power of the half star. Until then, I will keep rounding up because I am festive like that.)
This place was interesting, and clearly has the market cornered for the Pumpkin Farm meets Carnival meets Farmer’s Market meets Halloween Costume and Decoration Expo that Western New York needs.
Every weekend in the fall, The Great Pumpkin Farm charges those 3 and older $ 5 to attend their «festival weekends.» The $ 5 covers your entrance fee, free face painting a free hayride and free and discounted activities galore. But since I have 3 kids, it was 38 degrees and no one was wearing a hat or gloves, we skipped the discounted stuff and went straight for the face paint and hayride. (The kids did grift some cash from us for 1 game a piece. That $ 6 stuffed snake earned its place in the stuffed animal bucket) Keep in mind that apparently you do have to pay the $ 5 on the weekends, even if you just want to buy a pumpkin and skip the carnival stuff. So if you are looking for a gourd or cider fix, go during the week when you don’t have to pay admission.
Fun aside– the hay ride has you sit on tight hay bales instead of scattered straw, making this the most pleasant hay ride our family has gone on in years. No one was itchy. No one tried to take off socks or pants to rid themselves of hay. Win.
We just went to Lancaster, PA last weekend where every farmer must have had a banner crop of pumpkins, because the going rate was $ 2 a pumpkin. That made the prices here hard to swallow and we actually skipped the pumpkin portion of the Great Pumpkin Farm and opted to spend $ on cider donuts instead, which everyone enjoyed. I’ll buy slightly damaged discount pumpkins on October 30^th. There’s no shame in my frugal game.
Overall, a good time. We found the admission price fair since it covered a few things, including the hay ride. I can see how you can drop quite a few dollars here, but it can be done on the cheap if you are really good at distracting your children with «Hey, look at the camel!» when they notice all of the rides.

This pumpkin patch over all is great. Lots of activities and fun options for children. The only negative thing that stood out to me, and it was a big thing in my mind, was the condition of the pens for some of the animals. In particular, the pen that held the donkey, calf and pony. The ground was very muddy and there was not a dry place for them to stand or lie and their drinking water was pretty dirty. The donkey was wet and muddy from halfway down his side down to his feet and looked miserable. I’ve never been to this pumpkin patch before and I probably never will again (I live in California) but I’m hoping I just caught them on a bad day and this isn’t the regular state these animals live in.

I have a secret to tell. From my electrical well. It’s a simple message and I’m leaving out the whistles and bells.
I live near here. Yes. I live by a pumpkin farm. Does that mean I am homeless and I sleep under a haystack? Maybe. OK no. But it could have been. That would have been pretty interesting. Pretty harrowing too in winters. But yes, when I say I live by a pumpkin farm, I don’t mean a few miles from a pumpkin farm.
In the summers, this place is absolutely beautiful. I wish they hadn’t built the auction house, though. Very sad really. Before they built some big ugly buildings it was such a beautiful view of the farm from my bedroom window. Now it’s kind of ruined. And they cut down all the trees. But regardless. A beautiful place. Feels like the countryside even though it’s at the edge of the suburbs and Main Street runs right alongside it with a 55mph speed limit.
Lots of animals here too. Cats, squirrels, skunks, you name it. And then in the Fall, when the Fall Festival comes, it becomes such a wonderful place. Overpriced and a little over-​fried (in terms of the eateries and snack shacks), but it’s so amazing. Lots of beautiful women wandering around and all these adorable animals to pet, such as camels, alpacas, goats, you name it, they’re here. Too adorable, I can’t take it. I get way too happy when I see them. The animals, I mean, not the women. Okay, the women too.
As for the foods, well they have homemade lemonade and limeade (pretty good but overpriced), they have blooming onions, deep fried (same), they have a fried dough/​funnel cake shack (yum), and they have a caramel corn shack (which is more fair in its pricing and delicious). The Apple Cider isn’t really that good but it’s decently priced too. So with all this good stuff and all the adorable creatures, this place was always going to score high on the Richter Scale. i.e. the Unilocal scale.
Oh, and I live here. Which is why I check in here all the damn time. Get used to it.

Biggest pumpkins I have ever seen! Stopped here on a Friday late afternoon around 5:30. Tons of pumpkins to choose from. $.41 a pound. We bought five big ones for carving and it cost us $ 47. There wasn’t much going on events wise, I think the place is more lovely on the weekend. We went inside to warm up and there was a bakery with fresh pies, muffins and cupcakes, pretty cheap. Pies were $ 12 and cupcakes about $ 2 and change if I remember correctly. There was an enormous section of Halloween collectible inside. Mums went for $ 5 but the majority of them were dead or falling over so we opted out of that. Lots of deals and variety. We weren’t looking for corn mazes, haunted houses or other games so this place was a success for us.

I went here over the weekend and I thought it was OK. I kind of expected a pumpkin farm and not a full carnival experience though so expectations were a bit different. If you want to drop some cash you could have a lot of fun here. I wasn’t looking to, so was a bit disappointed by the cost of everything.
Cost $ 20 for my family of four to get in. That did include a free hay ride though along with a magic /​dog & pony show which were both cool. Kids had fun seeing the animals in the petting zoo area and they had a playground with slides.
For extra cash they had some air cannons and slingshots to launch some pumpkins. $ 1 one shot, $ 5 for 6 or something. Corn Maze is extra, along with some haunted houses $ 2-​$ 3 each. Then rides are extra so be prepared to say «No kids we came here for pumpkins», or drop more dough. A few carnival games and carny food were available at their usual outrageous prices, like $ 3.50 for one soft pretzel.
Then the pumpkins themselves are not cheaper than just buying them from a store. Which buying at the store is lame as you don’t get the experience, but you also don’t really get it here as they have them all picked and lined up. It’s not like you go into an actual pumpkin patch and pick them off the vine here. They do have some really HUGE pumpkins that if you want to drop $ 15-​$ 20 on one pumpkin you could. Saw a normal size one get priced at $ 8. (they are not marked they get weighed after you choose, so you may not be sure what you are getting into) Wegmans sells the same size for $ 6. We just got some pie pumpkins as they were actually priced well at about $ 1 each.
My kids did have fun even though I didn’t pay for the tons of extras carny stuff. If you want to pay, again this place could be lots of fun. If you’re looking for an actual pumpkin farm experience, might want to look elsewhere.

Came here on Sunday with Bradley and we had a blast! It is $ 5 per person to get in but if you forget cash, there is an ATM machine right there (we found this out from experience).
We first went through the gift shop and bakery. There was every single Halloween gift and craft anyone could think of!
When we first walked outside there was a petting zoo with goats, chickens, bunnies, alpacas, and a camel! We got a free pass to go on a hay ride and that was very fun! It’s amazing seeing their corn maze, a huge pond, and some woods on the ride. We also got to use the pumpkin slingshot and canon!
Every weekend was different and the weekend we went, there were pie eating contests.
I would definitely come back to The Great Pumpkin Farm! It is very kid friendly and a good time for anyone!