"It's that time of year, when your 3-year-old is meant to stand in overalls next to a pumpkin twice their size and pose for the photo you'll keep on your mantle for decades. Also known as: pumpkin-patch season. Whether you're looking for the largest pumpkin or the roundest, pumpkins to carve or to eat, we've got a list of some of the best places in the Bay Area to be entertained during pumpkin season."
"A day at the Smith Farm's Pumpkin Patch is an autumnal rite of passage in eastern Contra Costa, where the focus turns from Brentwood's famous corn (and stone fruit and tomatoes) to pumpkins (and pomegranates and persimmons) when the weather changes. Weekends offer special activities: Families can visit the interactive barnyard's animals, demonstration beehive and herb garden; wander the corn maze; play cornhole; and enjoy live music at the gazebo. Those days also feature arts and crafts vendors, food trucks and face painting."
Pumpkin-patch season draws families to Bay Area farms offering pumpkins alongside seasonal fruit such as pomegranates and persimmons. Smith Family Farm in Brentwood opens daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. through Halloween, charges $15 admission for ages 2 and up (cash and checks only), includes a pumpkin to take home, and features weekend barnyard animals, a demonstration beehive, corn maze, cornhole, live gazebo music, arts and crafts vendors, food trucks and face painting, plus the Antique Tractor Expo Oct. 11-12. Webb Ranch in Portola Valley grows most of its organic pumpkins on-site and adds bounce houses, a haunted house, a farm obstacle course, and weekend tractor rides, reptile exhibits and petting zoos.
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