THE PUMPKIN GARDEN IN PIGNATARO MAGGIORE

If autumn is your season, you will surely love The Pumpkin Garden.

It is a theme park located in Pignataro Maggiore, in provincia di Caserta, which reproduces the traditional ones Pumpkin Patch of the United States, farm fields where you can personally collect and buy ornamental pumpkins for the Halloween party.

The Pumpkin Garden of Caserta, created five years ago by Emily Turino e dalla sua famiglia (mother Elvira, Italian-American, lives between Italy and New England, and still today it continues to embellish the home garden with hundreds of beautiful pumpkins), it is an area of ​​two hectares, which has a total of 30 thousand pumpkins scattered around, grown by the Turino company in a 60 thousand square meter field adjacent to the garden. The Turino family lives in the large American-style white house in the center of the estate.

The Pumpkin Garden - Pumpkin Patch

The house of the Turino family

WHAT TO DO AT THE PUMPKIN GARDEN

To access the Pumpkin Garden you need to buy the ticket online, booking day and time slot (open from Thursday to Sunday, duration of the route two hours) and choosing which creative workshop to participate in: carving of the pumpkin or decoration of the pumpkin with tempera colors.

Once you get to the Garden, you can choose your own pumpkin among the many available in the field and transport it to the chosen laboratory with a red trolley. The decorated pumpkin will then come home with you, ready to scare guests on Halloween!

The Pumpkin Garden: the Pumpkin Patch for harvesting pumpkins

The path of the Pumpkin Garden continues with graceful installations and arrangements made with pumpkins, wood and hay bales in perfect country style, the Pumpkin Coffee which proposes the Pumpkin Spice Latte (milk with spices and pumpkin syrup) and a big one Area Food with well-spaced tables.

Pumpkin Spice Latte: milk with spices and pumpkin syrup

AREA FOOD

The gastronomic offer is entirely vegetarian, under the banner of pumpkin and orange, with some typical American recipes: pumpkin gnocchi, pumpkin pizza, pumpkin meatballs, Stuffed Pumpkin Flowers, sweeter, American red chips, pop corn.
To finish on a sweet note, Pumpkin bread, sweet pumpkin and spices; Pumpkin Donuts, fried pumpkin donuts; Pumpkin Ice Cream, soft ice cream served with pumpkin topping.

All preparations are made on the spot, to ensure tasty hot and fried dishes, and the pizza is cooked on the spot in the wood oven (by the Prezzemolo pizzeria in Caserta).

Pumpkin gnocchi, pumpkin meatballs, American red chips, Pumpkin bread, Pumpkin Donut, Pumpkin Spice Latte

Pumpkin pizza

Pumpkin Ice Cream

FAMILY’S FARM

You can integrate the experience of the Pumpkin Garden with a visit to the Family’s Farm, a path to get to know farm animals. Many families of animals, each with its own colored house: giant rabbits, cavalli Shetland, geese, alpaca, Suffolk sheep and many others.

And don't forget to take a picture of yourself on the giant bench!

I girasoli nel Family’s Farm

Also you can "get lost" in the colorful corn maze Glass Gem Corn, a particular variety sown in ancient times by Native Americans; the beans have beautiful shades, different from each other. The Glass Gem cobs, albeit edible, they are purely decorative, perfect for giving an autumnal touch at home.

Glass Gem Corn, photo from the site www.ilgiardinodellezucchepp.it

PUMPKIN SHOP

At the end of the visit, you can buy pumpkins of all kinds, flowers, plants, rainbow cobs, pumpkin jam and the special mix of spices (which enriches all the dishes of the Garden) al Pumpkin Shop.

Pumpkins available in the Pumpkin Shop

This year the Pumpkin Garden opened on 25 settembre, and will remain active until 31 ottobre.

At the Pumpkin Garden, children play and have fun in contact with nature, while adults become a bit children again thanks to the cheerful and fairytale-like atmosphere.

In più, the Garden is also dog friendly: dogs are welcome guests.

The Pumpkin Garden - Pumpkin Patch
Via Giancarlo Siani, 2 - Pignataro Maggiore, Caserta
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