Pumpkins, pumpkins and more to come by the 15. That’s the word this week from Pastor Deb Frysinger, pastor of the First Community Congregational Church at 200 Leeland heights Blvd. in Lehigh Acres as she talked about the opening of the church’s Pumpkin Patch.
A half a trailer load of all sizes of pumpkins arrived Sunday morning with about 100 volunteers from 4 to 91 years old where ready to unload the truck, a chore that took about two hours.
“There were 2000 pumpkins of all sizes on that truck from a Navajo reservation in New Mexico and they really look good,” the rest of the pumpkins will be delivered on Oct 15.
There have been stories in the national media this year about the shortage of pumpkins for the fall harvest. The reason is that the Midwest received a lot of rain and hail which has hurt pumpkin farming, Frysinger said.
If you drive by the church this week, the whole front lawn is filled with a few thousand pumpkins in all sizes, along with a variety of gourds, too. The whole yard is orange with hundreds of pumpkins piled pallets. There are volunteers from the selling the pumpkins and even loading them up in your car if you can’t lift one of the hefty ones.
“We really sell pumpkins fast,” Frysinger said.
As far as the church, it’s Pumpkin month because of all the activities going on all moth long.
For more information about the activities this month, call 239-369-1615.
