Santa Maria Welcomes In The Fall Season As The Patch Opens For 2025
Jarrod Zinn
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – As the Central Coast steps over the threshold from summer to autumn, Santa Maria is once again opening The Patch.
There are a few things that are fresh about it this year, besides the pumpkins.
The Patch was started in 2017 by four young adults to provide agricultural career and leadership experience to high school students by having them grow the pumpkins.
“The proceeds from the main event directly benefit the students through scholarships that we present to them once we wrap up each season,” says Corina Posada, one of the founding members of The Patch. “And the kids love being out here and showing off all their hard work.”
Located at Los Flores Ranch Park on Dominion Road, The Patch features a corn maze and activities for kids every weekend from now until Halloween.
“This year, we took a different approach to our corn maze,” says Posada. “So it is skeleton themed. It is not spooky. It is actually intended for young children. And throughout the maze, you’ll be able to find different skeletons, kind of like our skeleton tour guide.”
In addition to free crafts and plenty of photo ops, each of The Patch’s five weekends will feature a different set of activities, including Discovery Day, a Scavenger Hunt Day, and a Golden Ticket Day.
“We come out every year and we usually come multiple weekends just because we have so much fun with the jump houses and it’s such a good price with the pumpkins,” says Santa Maria resident David Probst. “We kind of usually buy a couple every visit. So it’s just it’s kind of like our nice little get away for the weekend.”
The Pink Pop Shop, a benefit for Mission Hope Cancer Center, will be at The Patch on Sunday October 19th, and the final Saturday will feature a trick-or-treat “not-so-spooky” nighttime hike on October 25th.
“We kind of usually get a big a big amount,” says Probst. “So we have a lot of carvings going on and it’s, you know, multiple times throughout October. We just like to carve pumpkins.”
Visitors will have a famously wide variety of pumpkins to choose from to make their own perfect Halloween jack-o-lantern.
The full promotional calendar for The Patch this year can be fond by clicking here.
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