October 6, 2018

Picking and plucking season 2018

Families spend time at area farms picking pumpkins and apples, making memories.

Titus Flentge, 4, proudly shows his mom Kristal Flentge the apple he picked at Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Tameeka Williams holds her 2-year-old son Abel Williams so he can peer over the fence and look at the kunekune pigs at Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Lynnon Machiran, 1, holds her mom, Breanna Machiran's, hand while Tara Siebert feeds her a bite of ice cream at Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Tyler Blackwell holds his daughter Adalyn's, 2, hand while walking to the petting barn space at Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Abel Williams, 2, slides down a slide at the children's play area of Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Kids play in the new children's play space at Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Kenai, a young Anatolian Shepard and Great Pyrenees mix puppy, rests her paw on Sophie, a kunekune pig, at the petting barn space of Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Chuck Crowden drives a tractor pulling a wagon while giving wagon rides to guests visiting Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Tyler Blackwell sits with his 2-year-old daughter Adalyn while taking a wagon ride around Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Tameeka Williams hugs her son Abel Williams, 2, during a wagon ride at Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Adalyn Blackwell, 2, smiles as she sits next to her dad Tyler Blackwell while taking a wagon ride Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 through Knowlan Family Farm in Burfordville.

Titus Flentge, 4, puts an apple into his bag with the help from his mom Kristal Flentge while apple picking at Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Tameeka Williams rests her hand on her son's leg during a wagon ride through Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Tyler Blackwell holds Cash Blackwell, 10 months, while Sarah Blackwell holds Adalyn Blackwell, 2, as they look at cows on the Knowlan Family Farm as part of a wagon ride Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Families head to the wagon to take a ride through Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Families load onto the wagon for a ride through Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Miriam Flentge, 6, pretends to bite into her 4-month-old little brother Titus' apple while he sits on their mom Kristal Flentge's lap during a wagon ride through Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Miriam, 6, and Isaac, 8, Flentge enjoy a wagon ride through Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Families take a wagon ride through Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Apples sit in a container waiting to be thrown to the cows in the pasture during a wagon ride at Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Isaac Flentge, 8, throws apples into a pasture of cows during a wagon ride through Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Families reach into a bucket of apples to throw to cows during a wagon ride through Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Families walk through the pumpkin patch field at Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Kids look out into a pasture of cows during a wagon ride through Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Eli Gross, 2, sits on his dad Andrew Gross' shoulders in order to see the cows in the pasture better during a stop on a wagon ride through Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Emma Floyd, 6, sits in the middle of the wagon during a wagon ride through Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Crew Furgason, 3, carries his white pumpkin through the patch after picking it out at Perryville Pumpkin Farm Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018 in Perryville.

Furgason siblings Laine, 2, and Crew, 3, hold their pumpkins for a photo at Perryville Pumpkin Farm Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018 in Perryville.

Keith Allen, 4, carries his pumpkin through the patch Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018 at the Perryville Pumpkin Farm in Perryville.

Colby Kutz, 4, races to pick up his pumpkin derby car while playing the pumpkin derby activity at Perryville Pumpkin Farm Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018 in Perryville.

Brentlee Sitzes, 3, watches a pumpkin roll down the ramp while playing pumpkin bowling at the Perryville Pumpkin Farm Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018 in Perryville.

Aiden Unterreiner, 5, jumps across hay bails at the Perryville Pumpkin Farm Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018 in Perryville.

Families spend time at Perryville Pumpkin Farm Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 in Perryville.

Adalyn Blackwell, 2, and her little brother Cash Blackwell, 10 months, wander through the pumpkin patch field in search of the perfect pumpkin at Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Kendal Harville, 4, plays in a pool of corn kernels at Perryville Pumpkin Farm Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 in Perryville.

Raelyn Miesner, 3, picks out a pumpkin at the Perryville Pumpkin Farm Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 in Perryville.

Families pick pumpkins from a field at the Perryville Pumpkin Farm Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 in Perryville.

Jeanne Morgan, right, photographs her daughter Jillian McDowell, 2, after she picked out her pumpkin at the Perryville Pumpkin Farm Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 in Perryville.

Adalyn Blackwell, 2, takes a bite of an apple in between looking at pumpkins at Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Cash Blackwell, 10 months, plops down next to a pumpkin while his big sister Adalyn Blackwell, 2, wanders the pumpkin patch field at Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Sarah Blackwell, right, picks up a pumpkin while her husband Tyler Blackwell holds their 10-month-old son Cash and their 2-year-old daughter Adalyn walks past eating an apple Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Tyler Eagan, 7, feeds pigmy goats at Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

Tyler Eagan, 7, feeds the pigmy goats in the new petting barn space of Knowlan Family Farm Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 in Burfordville.

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