Western Museum funding educational programs through annual pumpkin patch
Bradley Davis
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Western Museum of Mining and Industry (WMMI) hosts its 14th-annual “Miners’ Pumpkin Patch” to raise money for its field trips, outreach programs, STEM camps and other educational programming.
It all comes back to the different equipment and the different tools that we can use for not just outreach, but everything that we’re doing with our schools and different groups,” educational coordinator Ryan Freeny said.
The pumpkin patch is every Saturday in October from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The museum said it will have a Children’s Straw Maze, a giant slide, giant family yard games, a vintage apple cider press, animals, a hay ride, gold panning, mining machine demonstrations, farm stands, food trucks, a pumpkin catapult and pumpkin smashing.
“People drive by and go, ‘Oh, I’ve never been in,’ but there’s a reason to come now, right? And they can find out about the museum, the blacksmith shop and the other things we have going on,” Executive Director Grant Dewey said.
Tickets are $13 online or $15 at the door.
KRDO 13’s Bradley Davis and the crew at WMMI took some hammers to a pumpkin on Good Morning Colorado to show how tough they can be. Watch the story to see how they did.