We’re celebrating 10 years of growing pumpkins at Lower Drayton Farm with a fresh look for our pumpkin picking event.
A Staffordshire farm is encouraging families to get hands-on with the harvest this September, inviting children to head into the
Landlocked Staffordshire might be the last place you’d expect to find a beach – but PLAY@ Lower Drayton Farm has
Next Monday’s Home Ed session is all about Farm Wildlife and Hibernation! 🦔
We’ll be finding out who shares the farm with us, and where they go when winter arrives.
We’ll take a wildlife walk to look for signs of the creatures living around the farm and learn how and why some animals hibernate before heading back to the Home Education classroom to finish with a hibernation-themed craft.
📆 Monday 12th October
⏰ 11am - 1pm
📍 Lower Drayton Farm, Lower Drayton Lane, Penkridge
💷 £10pp
#westmidlands #Penkridge #homeeducation #HomeEducators #Stafford
Have you been to visit our pumpkin house yet? 🎃🎃🎃
Fantastic opportunity for those autumnal insta pics 📸
Patch open 10 & 11 Oct then daily 17 - 31 Oct…
🎃 30 acre patch
🎃 400,000 pumpkins
🎃 63 varieties
🎃 PYO veg option too
🎃 HUGE indoor carving barn
🎃 Hot food & licensed bar
🎃 Inflatable fun
🎃 Sweetcorn cannon & pumpkin catapult
All just 1 mile off J13 of the M6 in Staffordshire
🎟️ Tickets from £6pp online
#lowerdraytonfarm #westmidlands #daysoutwithkids #stafford #pumpkinseason
We have a WINNER!
Congratulations to Jodie Lisney who’s bagged tickets for 4 people to our pumpkin patch 🎃🎃🎃🎃
Thanks to everyone who entered - if you weren’t our lucky winner this time, you can book online from just £6pp: https://lowerdraytonfarm.co.uk/pumpkins/
#pumpkinpatch #pyopumpkinsstaffs #pyopumpkin #pumpkinpatch🎃 #pumpkincarving
*NEWSFLASH*
Staffordshire’s best pumpkin patch 2025 has added Corn 🌽 Cannons and Pumpkin 🎃 Catapults for 2026!
Who’s joining us down on the patch this weekend?
Book online NOW from just £6pp 🎃🎃🎃🎃
#BehindTheScenes in the pumpkin patch! 🎃
Our farm team are picking pumpkins 🎃 like it’s 1976 (check out Farmer Ray’s vintage Massey Ferguson tractor at work)! 🚜
Lots of pumpkins delivered further decorate our new Pumpkin Barn ready for visitors this weekend!
Who’s joining us?
🚜🎃🚜🎃🚜🎃🚜🎃🚜
#westmidlands #lowerdraytonfarm #staffordshire #pumpkinpicking
🎃 Have you tried our NEW-look pumpkin picking experience yet?
We’ve taken pumpkin season at Lower Drayton Farm to a whole new level for 2026 – and there’s a LOT more to it than simply choosing a pumpkin!
Head out onto our 30-acre patch, where we’ve grown around 400,000 pumpkins in an amazing 63 varieties. Grab a wheelbarrow, explore the fields and pick your favourites straight from the place they were grown.
Then make a day of it with fabulous photo opportunities, optional PYO farm-fresh veg, inflatable fun and our huge indoor carving barn – where you can carve your pumpkin before you leave and, best of all, leave the mess with us! 🎃
🥕 PYO carrots, beetroot, parsnips & potatoes available
📍 Lower Drayton Farm, Staffordshire – just 1 mile from J13 of the M6
🎟️ Tickets from £6pp (booked online) with pumpkin and veg-inclusive options available
And remember, Pumpkins @ Lower Drayton Farm is a standalone experience – PLAY@ admission isn’t required or included, so it’s perfect for families, couples, groups of friends and grown-up pumpkin pickers too.
Swipe through for the lowdown 👉 and book your autumn trip to the patch! 🍂
#staffordshire #westmidlands #pyopumpkins #lowerdraytonfarm #pumpkinpatch
This week our farm team are harvesting pumpkins from a patch we have grown away from the farm - these pumpkins will be used for more decorations around our new carving barn.
Farmer Craig has found a bumpkin pumpkin! 🎃
Follow link in bio to find out all about our NEW pumpkin picking experience for 2026!
#pumpkinpatch #pyopumpkinsstaffs #pyopumpkin #pumpkinpatch🎃 #pumpkincarving
🎃 DID YOU KNOW just how BIG our pumpkin patch is?!
For our new-look Pumpkins @ Lower Drayton Farm experience this autumn, we’ve grown…
🌱 Over 30 acres of pumpkins
🎃 63 different varieties
🤯 Around 400,000 pumpkins!
That means an incredible choice of classic orange pumpkins alongside colourful, quirky, warty and wonderfully weird varieties – all waiting to be picked right here where they’re grown.
And it’s not just pumpkins! Depending on your ticket, you can head into the fields to PYO farm-fresh beetroot, carrots, parsnips and potatoes too. 🥕🥔
Grab a wheelbarrow, explore the patch and pick your favourites before heading into our indoor carving barn to get creative – and leave the mess with us!
🎟️ Tickets from £6pp
🎃 Pumpkin and veg-inclusive ticket options available
⚠️ Please remember Pumpkins tickets do not include PLAY@ admission.
Autumn days on the farm don’t get much better than this. 🍂🎃
#pumpkinpatch #pyopumpkinsstaffs #pyopumpkin #pumpkinpatch🎃 #pumpkincarving
#FarmingUpdate
Our 2027 wheat 🌾 crop has emerged from the soil beautifully 🚜🇬🇧
🌾 DID YOU KNOW?
🌱 Wheat is actually a type of grass – and every tiny grain is a seed that can grow into a whole new plant.
🌾 As it ripens, wheat changes from green to that familiar golden colour.
🍞 Once harvested, the grain can be milled into flour for bread, cakes, biscuits, pasta and more.
♻️ Very little goes to waste – the stalks can become straw for animal bedding.
🌍 Humans have been growing wheat for around 10,000 years, making it one of the world’s oldest farmed crops!
Next time you tuck into a slice of toast, you know where it all started… 🌾🚜
#feedingthenation
#backbritishfarming🇬🇧 #LowerDraytonFarm #FamilyFarm #thisfarminglife
#TongueOutTuesday
Billy goat Rhodi is a regular for our Tongue out Tuesday star spot 😂
Have you got any pics of him without his tongue sticking out (if so please share in the comments below) 😛
Fantastic work from our Home Education group this morning!
We were learning all about the trees on the farm and their leaves… 🍂
Next Monday we’ll be learning all about wildlife and which animals hibernate for winter ❄️
#Staffordshire #LowerDraytonFarm #homeeducator #homeed #Penkridge
Today Brewood Church visited to collect their annual pumpkins from us… 🎃
Brewood Parish Churches #community #givingbacktothecommunity❤️