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26th Annual Fall Harvest Festival

Arts and Entertainment

August 22, 2023

From: Fall Harvest Festival

Our 26th Annual Fall Harvest Festival returns with our giant Pumpkin Patch, Pick Your Own & Fall Harvest experience! Our Festival site will be filled with games, rides, photos ops, live entertainment, themed weekends, bands and more! Weekends will include all performances, bands, demonstrations & entertainment. Pick Your Own fruit, vegetables, and flowers as well as tractor-pulled wagon rides around the farm, our Animal Center & visits with our animals are offered daily.

Schedule of Events:

September 23 & 24, 2023: Customer Appreciation Weekend

It's a preview weekend of our Fall Harvest Festival and all current Season Pass holders will receive free admission on Customer Appreciation Weekend - Saturday, September 23 and Sunday, September 24!  From 9am - 6pm, experience our fall event for the 1st time with included activities such as the corn maze, Pig Races & the Animal Show!

Also included with admission are tractor-drawn wagon rides, the Animal Center, Farmer Craig's Chicken Show, Cotton Harvester & Combine Slides, Wooden Play Equipment, Giant Tractor Display, Pumpkin House, entry to Pick Your Own Fields and numerous photo opportunities.  Plus - our Gigantic Pumpkin Patch will be open for the 1st time this season! Please note that Bands, Food Vendors and Live Entertainment will not be available this weekend.

Gate Admission: $10.00 (at gate only this weekend)
Current Season Pass holders receive FREE admission Saturday, September 23 & September 24
Children UNDER 2 FREE
Seniors (65+), Military, Veterans, & Emergency First Responders receive a $2 admission discount (with valid ID).

September 30 & October 1, 2023 - Friends of the Farm Weekend (Public Safety Weekend)

It's a weekend to celebrate our local First Responders! We've invited all those that work with us throughout the year to celebrate a weekend with our farm visitors. Joining us will be Ventura County Fire, the VC Sheriff's Department, EMS, department of Public Health, Search and Rescue and much more!

The event will help benefit the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department Explorers program, Foundation and Search and Rescue Programs, Ventura County Fire Department's Widow's and Orphan's Fund, VIPS, K9s and more. There will be demos from the Bomb Squad using their Bomb Robot, visit with the K9s and the Mounted Unit and a special appearance from the Air Unit! Learn CPR from AMR and have your children fingerprinted by the Thousand Oaks Volunteers in Policing.  This is a great opportunity to meet the First Responders in Ventura County and let them know how much you appreciate their service.

The following activities are planned for the weekend as well as many more!

Fire Trucks
Urban Search and Rescue vehicle
Patrol Vehicle
Air Unit
Bulldozer used for wildfires
Paramedic Squad
Police car
Swat Armored car
Disaster Action Response Team Vehicle (DART)
Search And Rescue (SAR) Snow Cat
SAR Response truck
SAR K-9
Patrol K-9
Bomb Robot with Bomb Truck
Patrol Motorcycle
Children’s Fingerprint Booth with Citizen Patrol Volunteer Team
Sheriff's Youth Explorers
CERT team with Display

October 7 & 8, 2023 - Farm Country Weekend

On Saturday, October 7 & Sunday, October 8, get ready for some Country! Local Ventura County bands will perform throughout the weekend on the Main stage for Farm Country Weekend which will take place from 10:00am - 5:45pm (bands & times listed below.) In addition, we're excited to have KHAY Country Radio broadcast LIVE from the farm!

The weekend will be filled with fun such as pig races, Animal Shows, strolling musicians and roaming performers. Don't miss the following live bands on the Main Stage beginning at 10:30am.

Schedule:

Saturday, October 7, 2023

10:30am - 2:00pm: CRV

11am -1pm: Featuring KHAY LIVE REMOTE

3:00pm - 5:45pm: Rocky Neck Bluegrass

Sunday, October 8, 2023

10:30am - 2:00pm: Rocky Neck Bluegrass

11am -1pm: Featuring KHAY LIVE REMOTE

3:00pm - 5:45pm: Orchard Bluegrass

Weekend Festival admission includes tractor-drawn wagon ride, corn maze, corn stalk labyrinth, Pig Races, Animal Show, Pumpkin House, Pumpkin playhouse, live music and entertainment, access to Pick-Your-Own fields and Pumpkin Patch, Animal Center including Bee Barn, hay pyramids, Fun Hill, Kid's Corral, Farmer Craig's Chicken Show, Combine Slide, Cotton Harvesting Slide and more!

October 14 & 15, 2023 - Antique Tractor Weekend

Antique Tractor Weekend featuring the Topa Topa Fly Wheelers, returns to the farm on Saturday, October 14 and Sunday, October 15. From 10am - 4pm, view dozens of unique old tractors from Farmall & John Deere to Case, Ford, & Allis Chalmers.

These beauties will be on display along with their proud owners who are ready to answer any question you may have. Don't miss the tractor parades that will take place at 11:30am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm. (Tractor makes and specific parade times are subject to change without notice.) Click here for the weekend's live entertainment.

Weekend Festival admission includes tractor-drawn wagon ride, corn maze, corn stalk labyrinth, Pig Races, Animal Show, Pumpkin House, Pumpkin playhouse, live music and entertainment, access to Pick-Your-Own fields and Pumpkin Patch, Animal Center including Bee Barn, hay pyramids, Fun Hill, Kid's Pasture, Farmer Craig's Chicken Show, Combine Slide, Cotton Harvester Slide and more!

October 21 & 22, 2023 - Wild West Weekend

Wild West Weekend will take place October 21 & 22 from *10:00am - 5:00pm. Festival hours are 9:00am - 6:00pm. From Sidewalk Swindles to stilt walkers and Barrel Horses, the weekend will be filled with Wild West Entertainment! Weekend Festival admission also includes tractor-drawn wagon ride, corn maze, corn stalk labyrinth, Pig Races, Animal Show, Pumpkin House, Pumpkin playhouse, live music and entertainment, access to Pick-Your-Own fields and Pumpkin Patch, Animal Center including Bee Barn, hay pyramids, Fun Hill, Kid's Corral, Farmer Craig's Chicken Show, Combine Slide and more!

SIDEWALK SWINDLES
Try not to get swindled and test your luck at the card games of the old west used to con cowboys out of their money!

BANJO COWPOKE
A former member of Ringling Bros. Circus, Jimmy the Banjo Cowpoke will entertain all in his Wild West getup as he strums the banjo one minute and spins his lasso the next.

ROAMING ENTERTAINMENT
Whether on stilts or on foot, the roaming Wild West entertainment will sure make you crack a smile as they juggle, spin, jump, twist and delight.

OLD TIME MINER
Stories to stunts, this ole time miner will have you entertained alongside Underwood's Mining Co. while visitors try their hand at mining for gems and fossils.

BARREL HORSE
Come ride, rope or just relax and have your photo taken on our brand new Barrel Horses.  Choose from a team of 3 ready to ride!

STUNT ROPER
Be amazed by the lassos and snaps of our stunt roper! From roping cows and kids to cracking the whip, our roper will have you wanting more!

*Farm Hours are 9:00am - 6:00pm. Western Weekend is 10am - 5pm.

Weekend Festival admission includes tractor-drawn wagon ride, corn maze, corn stalk labyrinth, Pig Races, Animal Show, Pumpkin House, Pumpkin playhouse, live music and entertainment, access to Pick-Your-Own fields and Pumpkin Patch, Animal Center including Bee Barn, hay pyramids, Fun Hill, Kid's Pasture, Farmer Craig's Chicken Show, Combine Slide and more!

October 28 & 29, 2023 - All About Pumpkins Weekend

This weekend it's All About Pumpkins! Such varieties as Magic Lanterns & Aladins, Howden Biggies, Gold Rush, Luminas, Full Moon/Ghosts, Cinderellas, Big Macs, Atlantic Giants, Baby Pams and Mystics, Jack be Littles, Lil' Pumpkemons, Fairytales and Jarahdales PLUS Green gourds, Winter squash, Indian Corn and Much More!! From tiny to enormous, orange to green, perfect to bizarre - we have them all! Whatever your preference, every type of pumpkin you could ever imagine, just waiting in our fields hoping to find a home.

In addition to the displays of fall, harvest, and Halloween decor, artistic members of the staff spend the week decorating and carving pumpkins for this special weekend. Their creations will be on exhibit to offer inspiration for your own prized pumpkins.

From 10:30am -5:45pm, listen to live music and and celebrate the Harvest. Don't miss our Animal Show at 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm & Pig Races at 11:00am, 12:00pm, 1:00pm, 2:00pm, 3:00pm, 4:00pm & 5:00pm! Also included with your admission are Tractor-Drawn Wagon Rides, the Corn Maze, Farmer Craig's Chicken show, the corn stalk labyrinth, combine slide, cotton harvesting slide, live entertainment, pumpkin patch (pumpkins not included), and the Animal Center which has a fun hill and tunnel, hay pyramids, animal exhibits and information, Kid's Pasture and trike trail, as well as a wooden climbing train.

Festival Hours: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location: Underwood Family Farms, 3370 Sunset Valley Road, Moorpark, CA 93021

Fall Harvest Festival Admission Weekends:
ONLINE ONLY
$26 -Sept. 30, Oct. 1, 7 & 8
$22 Pre-sale until 9/29 for 9/30 & 10/1 ONLY
$28 - Day of Admission If Spots Available
→ no additional on-line fees added at checkout ←

ONLINE ONLY
$28 - Oct. 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29
$30 - Day of Admission If Spots Available
→ no additional on-line fees added at checkout ←

Children UNDER 2 FREE
Seniors (65+), Military, Veterans, & Emergency First Responders receive a $2 admission *discount every day (with valid ID). *Must purchase discounted weekend ticket on-line & then show ID at gate for entry.

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