Sustainable Travel for a Spooky Halloween

Halloween can become a green holiday when paired with sustainable travel. Nothing says "Happy Sustainable Halloween" like featured your favorite pumpkin carvings in pumpkins grown from sustainable farming. Halloween is just around the corner, so be sure to check out some of the spookiest, yet greenest, pumpkin patches around.

Begin your spooky sustainable travel with a stop in Fort Worth, Texas. Green's Produce and Plants is helping Cowtown be known for more than just cattle. This store has been operating since 1969 and prides itself on supplying the community with sustainably and responsibly grown food. Green's Produce and Plants strives to provide as much locally grown goods as possible. This year, the "Pumpkin Patch Party" will be held early October, providing a great supply of sustainably grown pumpkins. In addition to these Texas pumpkins sure to delight the best carver, there will be plenty of fun fall activities for the entire family.

If your sustainable travels take you to the west coast, be sure to make a stop in Hoodriver, Oregon. At the Rasmussen Family Farm, there are wonderful fall activities for everyone, including a pumpkin field! With Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams as the backdrop, visitors are allowed to frolic through the rows of pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns, free to gather the perfect pumpkins for their fall plans. There will also be other fall favorites, including a corn maze and a wealth of delicious fall treats like apple cider. This family farm also prides itself on farming the way farming was meant to be- natural and non- threatening to nature.  Sustainable travel during the Halloween season is especially exciting at the Rasmussen Family Farm. 

Iowa may have been the recipient of some negative publicity this year, but Kathy's Pumpkin Patch will certainly renew its great sustainable farming reputation. After leaving her conventional farming methods behind, Kathy threw her efforts into sustainably producing pumpkins. And unlike most pumpkin patches, Kathy's Pumpkin Patch offers fun and educational activities for the entire family the entire year! Get in the Halloween holiday spirit by getting lost in one of her corn mazes, participating in a toasty bonfire or bonding with family while roasting marshmallows. A number of activities are planned to educate visitors about the need and reward s of sustainable farming.  Sustainable travel to Kathy's Pumpkin Patch will undoubtedly help you pick the perfect pumpkin, and you might learn something new along the way.

Any pumpkin patch connoisseur will agree that this annual American favorite has been largely untouched by the growing sustainable farming industry. Organizations like Kathy's Pumpkin Patch, Rasmussen Family Farm, and Green's Produce and Plants are working to change that. Sustainable travel to the sustainable pumpkin patches that do exist not only supports a sustainable environment, but it supports the sustainable farming industry as well.

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