Walden Farm

We’ve been going here for four years and our eight and four year old children still love it. The highlights are a tractor ride, hay and corn mazes, feeding goats, and a great kids area with a mountain of bales of hay to climb, slides, seesaws, a small haunted house, and a lot more. The individual attractions are a bit expensive for what they are ($ 4 per person for the tractor ride for example), but there’s so much free stuff to enjoy as well that you can easily spend a fall afternoon here for $ 30 with a family of four (not counting food), which is really quite reasonable. It should be noted that most (maybe even all?) of the pumpkins are pre-​picked, so it might not be the pumpkin picking experience that people expect. But still an enjoyable day trip from Nashville and a perfect place to spend a fall day with kids.

We came over the weekend and still had a good time, but not as good as last year. ALL of the animal feed dispensers were empty and not refilled the entire 5 hours we stayed (not acceptable) and the conveyor belt contraptions meant to send feed up to the goats were broken. The animals were nervous and wary and stayed out of petting radius (can you blame them?) The gift shop is a mish mash of really random stuff… weird totally unrelated souvenir toys, candy apples and overpriced fall décor and a huge shelf of jams at the back.
The pumpkins had been massively picked over and a lot were rotting. You’d pick one up thinking you’d finally found a good one and the entire other side was rotted out. On the positive side, there were freaking AHHHHMAZINGGGG homemade burgers and delicious funnel cake. The BBQ bean bowl I had was half good, the BBQ was out of this world delicious, while the cornbread and white beans were completely flavorless (seriously needed some salt and seasoning!)
Their (new? I don’t remember it being there last year) system of Walden bucks was inconvenient and annoying. Stand around in lengthy lines for mandatory punch cards for your rides… why not just pay in cash and avoid this hassle? They’re operating like a huge theme park but their operation isn’t big enough to need that. They should be focusing more on reparations and upkeep and less worried about punch cards.
Walden Farms is in shambles and it’s a darned shame. Maybe we’ll go explore a different pumpkin patch this coming weekend.
Edited to add: Just noticed another Unilocaler speak of the hay ride, and now that she mentions it, I recall that, shockingly, this IS NO hay on the hay ride! It’s more like a tractor ride with two benches per trailor. Not authentic at all = further disappointment in retrospect. Skip it.

After reading the reviews for this pumpkin patch I decided to take my son here. We are new to the area and I have great memories as a child going to pick pumpkins with my mother, I wanted the same for my son. Sadly when I got Walden’s I was highly disappointed. The advertisement of «pick your own pumpkins» sounds like you go into a field and pick them off the vine which is exactly what I was looking for, but instead the farm just took the smallest pumpkins they could find and laid them out on the grass in the middle of the activities. The other pumpkins were way over priced especially since I decided to go buy pumpkins at Kroger instead and got 2 large pumpkins for $ 8 total instead of the $ 16 the farm charged for one. My son begged to go on the hay ride that was completely hayless. This farm is great for very little kids (I’d say ages 3 and below), but if you have a child a bit older the farm looses it’s appeal.

Absolutely love this place! The staff is laid back it’s a place kids and adults can enjoy. Every year it gets better and better

If you have little kids, this is the place to go in Nashville for Pumpkin Patch fun. Parking and Admission are free, and includes lots of photo ops, farm animals, and a pumpkin patch. But stop by the ATM on the way — lots of fun activities throughout, reasonably priced $ 2 – 4. They also have a $ 10 punch card — a great way to give kids a chance to spend with a budget, but all the activities take a cash. We spent about $ 25 for our family of four (including a huge pumpkin) and everyone had a blast. Some of the other places charge up to $ 12pp and the lines just to get in are crazy.

Love it!

Great place to let your kids run and have good ol country fun. Totally love it there. Will be going back next year for sure!

I agree with 100% with Caleb P’s review. Walden farm is a great place to spend a fall day with the kids. Reasobably priced food, crafts and of course pumpkins. We’ll definitely be going back.