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Employee Orientation Today at Walters’ Pumpkin Patch
Today is our employee orientation, so we can show our new employees what we do and what we would like for them to do while they are working here at the Walters’ Pumpkin Patch. Our facility is close to the Wichita market and we are competing, so to speak, with those Wichita pumpkin patches and other entertainment entities. We have to be the best, be different or be first to attract those customers and get them to drive 45 minutes to 1 hour to come play in our pumpkin patch! Walters’ Pumpkin Patch is one of Kansas’s largest and most unique pumpkin patches, but our employees all make the difference whether our visitors really have a great time.
I’m really excited about the employees we’ve hired for the 2010 season. It is going to be an awesome year with great employees who are smart enough to handle the goings-on of our pumpkin patch facility. The weather is going to be just perfect for enjoying a fall day in the Flinthills of Kansas. And the decorating of our grounds, the gift shops, and the baking is just going to put us all over the edge! Can you tell we’re getting excited too? Be sure to take a look at our events page on the www.walterspumpkinpathc.com site. Our Gourdeners (like a gardener, only gourds….) Day and the 34 mile Band, and Jeff Davission with his music and history of Kansas talk will be added this year for your entertainment. Oh, and did I mention all the great new attractions that Carroll has built this year? Can’t forget his talents and efforts in this crazy Kansas agritourism business! Until next time….we’re down in the patch!
This gourd fellow is made with one of our giant bushel gourds. This is a big one, people! While I was mowing yesterday around the gourd field, I thought of all the wonderful, huge gourds that we have growing this year and all the people who might be interested in crafting a huge gourd, if they just knew how! So….we’re going to have a Gourdeners Day complete with a wagon ride to the gourd patch to pick out their gourd(s), and then give instruction what to do with the gourds when they are dry and ready to craft. I really like the idea and hope others will too! We are going to have to rope off the gourd patch though, so “random” visitors don’t just wander through, stepping on the vines and gourds, and literally ruining the crop. So….crime scene CAUTION tape will be put up to keep the just- lookers out of the gourds! Hopefully this will allow the gourds to maximize in size.
Let’s set a date of Sunday, October 10th. Come on out to Walters’ Pumpkin Patch and plan to spend the day. We’ll take you to the gourd patch for our 1st Gourdeners Day, let you pick your gourds (prices vary from $3.00 to $20.00), and then instruct you on crafting the gourd when they are dry.
Until next time….we’re down in the patch.
The Smell of Fall
On a cool Kansas evening at the Walters’ Pumpkin Patch, you can “smell” the pumpkin patch. It a musty, sweet smell like none other. It’s the “smell” of fall just like the “smell” of spring when the lawn is first mowed. This is one of the smells that you grow to love and to cherish. I know someday as Carroll & I will grow too old to have pumpkin patches, and there won’t be a pumpkin patch that I can “smell” as fall approaches. But for now…..I hope all of you take time to “smell the pumpkins” and enjoy the approaching fall season before winter comes.
Several of the “crew” will be here today helping us to ready for our pumpkin season. Susan is cooking up lots of cookies and pumpkin dessert rolls, Rhonda is unpacking merchandise and decorating the gift shops, and Judy has started re-working the grounds. Oh and what a re-working she does. The rock hill between our house and the little gift shop looks like a photo out of a gardening magazine. Judy “sees” our facility with different eyes than we have, and just is so talented at making it look really good. She also builds scarecrows, and decorates with corn and bales, shocks and pumpkins too. These three gals keep me sane when we’re preparing to open our agritourism operation in just a couple of weeks.
Until next time….stop to smell the pumpkins this fall.
