Although Halloween is the high point for pumpkins, the season lasts into late November. | Stock Photo
Although Halloween is the high point for pumpkins, the season lasts into late November. | Stock Photo
Halloween has come and gone, but one Winston-Salem businessman likes to remind people that pumpkin season is still going strong.
Bryan Hawks, owner of Hawks Pumpkin Patch, is making the most of the season, offering an array of family-oriented fun.
“Seeing the kids’ faces and hearing them laugh, hearing the Radio Flyer wheels, that’s the best part,” Hawks said in a myfox8.com report. “I used to wholesale pumpkins, and I had a customer who stuck me with a tractor-trailer load and my brother suggested I bring them here.”
That evolved into a practice where he started decorating things, because people thought it was a display at first.
The time for jack-o-lanterns, of course, makes for one of the high points in the pumpkin business, but that tapers off to things like pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving and today’s penchant for pumpkin-spiced anything.
Soon, though, the pumpkins will give way to Christmas trees.
“I got a lot of friends in the community,” Hawks said. “They were strangers when I got here… and their kindness is what built this place.”
For families and their kids, visiting during one or more of the holiday seasons has become a tradition.
“To see these kids grow up over the 22 years, that means the world to me,” Hawks said.
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