pkins, pumpki
pum
“You have to wait until all the pumpkins
are in,” says Mrs. Pfautz, “since you have
to find certain shapes to create the dif
ferent displays.”
After she picks out her pumpkins, Mrs.
Pfautz then sets them up in the various
scenes she has planned for the year, and
when they are all set up, she paints their
faces.
Along with the tourists, her pumpkin
artwork has attracted bus loads of school
children-last year 1500 children took a
tour through the farm market where the
Pfautz’s showed them how the pumpkins
are grown and marketed. The Pfautz’s
also raise swine, so seeing the hog
operation was part of the tour, as well.
The Hammond family near
Stewartstown in York County do much the
same activities at their farm market.
Since they are near the Maryland border,
90 per cent of their trade comes from Bel
Air, Townsend, and Baltimore.
“Many people come into York County
for a drive, and then they stop by with us,”
says Hammond, who is sold on the beauty
of York County.
Echoing the sentiments of the Pfautz
family, the Hammonds say that their
- visitors expect something new every year.
The Hammonds start setting up their
displays around the second week of Sep
tember and close down the market on
November 1. All told, from July through
November, the Hammonds sell all their
produce from 50 acres of crops that include
sweet com, Summer squash, peppers, egg
plants, tomatoes, red cabbage, green
cabbage, cucumbers, cauliflower, and
turnips.
The Hammonds also conduct tours with
as many as 2000 school children from
nursery school through first grade lear
ning how produce is raised and marketed.
This pumpkin
' farmer at the Spencer
Hammond farm
market appears to be i
a swine grower from '
the litter of pigs at his •’
feet.
j anracter Farming, Saturday, Octqber 29,1977
This tricycle rider is
of the more popular pumpi
people at the Leroy R. Pfai
farm market near Stevi
Rl. According to M
Pfautz, who has created f
displays for 12 years, t(
such as this three wheel
come in handy when creatf
pumpkin scenes.
These pumpkin
children at the Leroy
Pfautz farm market
seem to enjoy the toy
wagon as much as real
live playmates.
Along with pum
pkins, hay rides are
also signs of the
Autumn season.
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