Pumpkin Patch 2013

A tractor-trailer load of pumpkins will transform the front lawn of Wyoming Presbyterian Church into a sea of orange on Saturday, Oct. 12, to kick off the annual Pumpkin Patch sale.

Volunteers will unload the truck starting at 9 a.m. on the corner of Wyoming Avenue and Linden Street. Pumpkins of all sizes, decorative gourds and other fall decorations will be for sale throughout the month, seven days a week.  

The pumpkins travel all the way from a Navajo Reservation in New Mexico, where they are grown by Pumpkin Patch USA.  A portion of the proceeds go to the tribe.  The remaining money raised this year will go the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless and Living Waters for the World, a Presbyterian Church (USA) mission project to provide sustainable clean drinking water throughout the world.  Last year, proceeds were donated to the Community Food Bank of New Jersey.

Rain or shine, the Pumpkin Patch will be open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sundays from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and weekdays from noon to 6 p.m.

For more information on Elizabeth Coalition, please visit http://www.theelizabethcoalition.org/.  Visit http://livingwatersfortheworld.org/ for more information on Living Waters.