One-year-old Graham Petty of Arlington Heights walks among the pumpkins Monday during Pumpkinfest at Didier Farms in Lincolnshire. The festival runs through Oct. 30, with a corn maze, hayrides, a petting zoo, rides and lots of pumpkins.
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Small children crawled over a sea of orange looking for bigger and bigger pumpkins Monday during Pumpkinfest at Didier Farms in Lincolnshire.
The annual fall festival features a corn maze, tractor hayrides, the Animal Land zoo, Pumpkin Playland, Silly String Asylum, pig races, kiddie rides and lots of pumpkins.
"We have been here since 1912, when the farm was purchased. Pumpkinfest goes for six weeks with all kinds of activities," said Didier Farms manager Donna Didier. "Families love coming out here. That is kind of what we are all about."
In addition to the activities, the Farmstand sells homemade pumpkin and apple cider doughnuts, fresh pies, caramel apples, kettle corn and fall produce.
"It is a family tradition for us. I've been coming here since I was little," Wheeling resident Jill Meyer said as she watched her 4-year-old niece, Zoie Zelasko, pull a wagon filled with pumpkins. "Since it's family owned, I think that's important to people."
Kids watch pig racing in Animal Land during Pumpkinfest at Didier Farms in Lincolnshire on Monday. The festival runs through Oct. 30 with a corn maze, hayrides, a petting zoo, rides and lots of pumpkins.
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Children feed birds in the Parakeet Encounter during Pumpkinfest at Didier Farms in Lincolnshire on Monday. The festival runs through Oct. 30 with a corn maze, hayrides, a petting zoo, rides and lots of pumpkins.
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Zoie Zelasko, 4, of Wheeling pulls a wagon of pumpkins Monday during Pumpkinfest at Didier Farms in Lincolnshire. The festival runs through Oct. 30 with a corn maze, hayrides, a petting zoo, rides and lots of pumpkins.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com