We have some news. It’s the end of an era. We have called time on our much loved pumpkin festival and growing pumpkins here at Kilduff Farm.  We know that it will be disappointing to many of you so please read to the end so we can explain.

If you have been with us from the start, you will know that the whole reason we started growing pumpkins 8 years ago was for our children. A project to help get them out on the farm and involved in day to day farming. It certainly achieved that and much, much more! We never imagined how special it would become to so many families across the Lothians and beyond.

We’ve had an absolute blast. It would be disingenuous to say that we have loved every minute. It has been pretty hard work at times and the weather certainly hasn’t been on our side a lot of the time. We have, however, absolutely loved welcoming pumpkin pickers young and old to the farm to pick their pumpkins and help create very special family memories together.

It has not been an easy decision and certainly one that hasn’t been taken lightly. Every successful event takes a huge amount of work, much of it behind the scenes, and our family and staff have all poured their hearts and souls into making the pumpkin festival a special experience for every person that visited. Growing pumpkins isn’t for the faint of heart and the increasingly unpredictable weather has made delivering an event of this nature and scale more and more challenging and time consuming over the years. There are a multitude of factors that have shaped our decision but ultimately we know it’s the right time for our family to turn the page on this chapter of our lives.

We can’t thank you all enough for supporting our crazy little pumpkin project. We will all really miss the fun we have had on The Patch but we are excited to see what the next adventure will be.

With love, Lucy x