Borchard Farms

If you want a variety of pumpkins this is the place to be!
If your going for the corn maze, haunted barn, and inflatables… DON’T GO! This place isn’t worth the $ 48 my family of 6 spent.
After walking around looking at giant pumpkins we decided to enter the attractions. $ 4 for each, $ 7 for 2 and $ 10 for 3. Wish this was posted on their site…
Anyway there were two inflatable but one was damaged, the haunted barn (day time) was great for the 3 year old… But you can walk done the aisle in Target for more excitement. And lastly the corn maze is 5 acres it can take you 15−45min to get finished… Not amused.
I was grateful for the wonderful weather and the beautiful hills.
Don’t have high expectations for the amusement part of this farm should you choose to visit.

My wife wanted to take some pictures while we were on vacation so I Unilocaled it and found the borchard farms pumpkin patch. The farm is about a 35 min drive from Monterey and you pass by some large farmland along the way. The signs are fairly small so if you aren’t using GPS you need to keep an eye out. There were plenty of pumpkins out, although this patch isn’t nearly as big as the tanaka farms one in so cal. However if you want to see some really big pumpkins this is your place! The staff was friendly and I don’t know what people were bitching about the prices because they had a large assortment of pumpkins from 2 $ on up and the 5 $ area was loaded with great choices! I didn’t see any petting zoo nor haunted barn but there were some exotic pheasants in cages.
Definitely worth seeing if you are in the area and its great to buy your pumpkins from family owned businesses anyways to keep them around.

I love this place, beautiful location. I take my kids every year, try going during the week. Weekends are overcrowded.

I stopped by the farm yesterday because I was visiting Monterey for a few days for work (Navy). I wanted to do something festive so I found this place on the internet. When I got there, I randomly asked if they offer a military discount because I wanted to do the haunted barn and the corn maze. Well, not only did they say our visit was on the house, but they gave us a pumpkin too! I was just speechless! Little things like that is why I love serving this amazing country. Thank you Borchard Farms!

I have made this a tradition for awhile since we moved around here like 10 years ago. And always made it a point to visit ! Even after I had my babies. But for some reason this time I was disappointed. The $ 6 pumpkins weren’t fully stocked only like 10 to choose from. Only like 5 beat up $ 2.00 pumpkins for my kids. I almost left. But my my kids love it there we decided to stay bc my kids really enjoy the bunnies as well. I didn’t like the fact I had to walk all the way to the back of the farm to grab my own little pumpkin. Maybe we decided to go on a bad day. But bad day or not I think the pumpkin patch should’ve been stocked for the customers. We may try another pumpkin patch next year. Just would hate to lose hope on this place !

Just picked up our pumpkins from this awesome family run pumpkin patch. Best selection of pumpkins and gourds that I’ve seen around. I moved out of Salinas many years ago but I still make the 3 ½ hour drive from Folsom with the family. It’s usually an all day event with the kids doing the corn maze and haunted house before choosing the perfect Pumpkin. The annual California Pumpkin Weigh Off is held here and that’s always exciting. This year’s weigh off is October 19^th so we’ll be back to watch the Giant Pumpkins get weighed. This place is a tradition for my kids so Halloween wouldn’t be the same without pumpkins from Borchard Farms.

fun environment for a kids birthday party, nice farm — agree with the overpriced comment, tho’ and also — they have porta potties across the street next to the corn maze but YOU CAN’T WASH YOUR HANDS! — in the «Hand Sanitizer» container they had… soap…but NO WATER — VERY ANNOYING AND UNSANITARY; the little kids had to walk around with dried soap on their hands…
owner said the hand washing station will be fixed… fast response to a «contact us» email/​also he defended prices based on comparable «entertainment» in the area and indicated individual activities which were higher in comparison — like the jump houses—

Ridiculously overpriced if you plan to come here with a family. Just to walk in a corn maze with family of 4 (infant and toddler) was $ 16! They charge for everything. The pumpkins are overpriced as well. We spent close to $ 20 for 2 small regular pumpkins and 2 cannonball pumpkins. Everything has a price.
I mentioned to the woman they should probably list the prices on their site. We considered going elsewhere. A conversation between my husband and I and the woman added up our total took our money then when she gave us change said we are cheaper than everyone else so good luck. Which isn’t true. I’ve found other farms that offer free services. But it’s nice she took our money and decided to get snotty and nasty after we paid. She blew me off until that point. Font waste your time rude employees and they are just cash cows. Product isn’t even that great.