Special Events

Special Events at the 2010 Pumpkin Festival:

Sept. 25-26 - Food Shelf Weekend, $1 off admission with a food shelf donation.

Oct. 2-3 - Cornstalk Creating Contest. See what you can create with 30 cornstalks - groups or individual! Can be anything. Will be judged on creativity. Fun! Cash prizes. Judging at 3pm.

Oct. 9-10 - Pumpkin Painting Contest with prizes. Pumpkins painted at Nelson Farm Paint Shop (need to purchase your pumpkin.) Judging at 3pm.

Oct. 16-17 - Skalklubb Fiddlers "From Brainerd Way"

Wed. Oct. 20 - Corn Maze by Flashlight, 7pm-9:30pm, $6 admission (not included in daytime gate admission. Bring your own flashlight! Also available: wagon rides, bonfire & marshmallows, mini donuts for sale.

Oct. 21-22 - Thursday/Friday - MEA, open 11:00am - 5:00pm

Fri. & Sat. Oct. 22-23 - Corn Maze by Flashlight, 7pm-9:30pm, $6 admission (not included in daytime gate admission. Bring your own flashlight! Also available: wagon rides, bonfire & marshmallows, mini donuts for sale.

Oct. 23-24 - Scarecrow-Making Contest, with prizes. Bring old clothes and a pair of nylons for the head. Judging at 3pm.

Wed. Oct. 27 - Corn Maze by Flashlight, 7pm-9:30pm, $6 admission (not included in daytime gate admission. Bring your own flashlight! Also available: wagon rides, bonfire & marshmallows, mini donuts for sale.

Fri. & Sat. Oct. 29-30 - Corn Maze by Flashlight, 7pm-9:30pm, $6 admission (not included in daytime gate admission. Bring your own flashlight! Also available: wagon rides, bonfire & marshmallows, mini donuts for sale.

Oct. 30 - 31 - NEW! Pumpkin Carving Contest with prizes. Carve your pumpkins and leave the mess at the farm! (Need to purchase your pumpkin.) Judging at 3pm each day.


Daily Schedule

12:30pm-1:15pm Swinging in the Hayloft (ages up to 8th grade only)
1:30pm Trebuchet (Pumpkin Chucker Flinger Thinger)
1:35pm Coin Scramble with prizes! (In the Horse Course, of course!)
2:00pm Ag Olympics with prizes! Sign up by the windmill.
3:30pm Trebuchet (Pumpkin Chucker Flinger Thinger)

Activities subject to change or cancellation due to weather.

 

 

 

 

The Nelson Farm

Don and Sonja Nelson  |  320-693-7750  |  nelsonfarm@willmar.com