The Ferrari Farms pumpkin patch has been a family favorite in Reno for over two decades. As James Reno reports, their fall festival runs every day from September 30th to October 31st and has plenty to offer.
Right by the entrance, people were assembling near a booth to buy tickets for the corn maze and take part in a raffle.
One of them, Kenzie has only lived in Reno for a few years but has made it a yearly tradition to attend the pumpkin patch.
“I really love Ferrari Farms and I’ve been going there for a few years now and everyone is super nice, it’s super organized, it’s really fun and I would say my favorite part is the petting zoo, it’s really fun,” she explained.
On top of the petting zoo where cows could be seen eating corn, and other activities, there are multiple food and drink vendors at the pumpkin patch that seem to get a lot of business.
The owner of the TapWagon in Reno, one of the vendors at the event, Cody Wagner, loves the festival as well.
“I think I started in 2018 was our first year so been here for a couple of years. It’s always good business out here, they treat us really well, the owners do, so yeah I can’t complain it’s fun, as long as the weather holds up,” Wagner said.
A common theme among the workers and vendors was that the owner, Frank Ferrari was a great person who treated everyone well.
Ferrari, who runs around checking everything is running smoothly, took a few minutes to explain the festival’s origins.
“We started the pumpkin patch 26 years ago and we’ve been growing ever since, the farm has been in our family since 1912. We do the hay rides, corn maze, corn walk, we have a country store, we have vendors, we have animals, all kinds of stuff like that. We even do movies under the stars and a haunted maze, but yeah it’s just a lot of fun, and a lot of families enjoy it,” Ferrari said.