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Flying Pumpkin Festival 2008

A Recap of the 2008 Festival

 



The Flying Pumpkin Festival took place on September 27, 2008, at Peaceful Valley Orchards and was highly successful, despite unfavorable weather conditions. Over $3,000 was raised for America's Grow-A-Row. The Battschinger family from NJ Hurl was present at the festival, shooting pumpkins from their enormous trebuchet. In addition to the pumpkin launching there were numerous other activities, including the construction of cars from corn that were raced down a track, a cake walk in which almost 100 participants won delicious cakes, pony rides, pumpkin painting, face painting, balloon animals, and more. Many thanks to the Battschinger family at NJ Hurl, the Colalillo ShopRite and the Voorhees High School Key Club for supplying cakes, Fat Jack's BBQ for providing food at the event, Van Doren Oil for donating, Peaceful Valley Orchards, Colleen Duerr from America's Grow-A-Row, and to all other volunteers and participants who made the festival possible.



 

Activities at the Festival

  • Pumpkin Launching!-Representatives from NJ Hurl showed off their medieval war machine: a trebuchet.  Every half-an-hour they ran demonstrations and sent their pumpkin ammunition flying across the fields. For more info on NJ Hurl and pumpkin launching catapults visit http://www.njhurl.com/ 

  • Corn Cars- Guests built their own cars out of ears of corn and then competed in races.

  • Cake Walk- The guest who was standing on the chosen number when the music ended won a cake of his or her choosing.

  • Food Drive- Packaged foods were collected to donate to the food pantry.

  • Pick-your-own Pumpkins

  • Pumpkin Painting

  • Face Painting

  • Pony

  • Rides

  • Balloon Animals

  • Guess-How-Many Booth

  • Petting Zoo

  • Food from Fat Jack's BBQ

More than Just a Day of Fun: Why Raising Money for Grow-A-Row is Important

  America’s Grow-A-Row is a local organization that grows and gleans produce to donate to food banks and food pantries.  Due to the high cost of living in New Jersey, approximately twenty to twenty-five percent of its families are considered poor, and the produce collected by America’s Grow-A-Row helps to care for these hundreds of thousands of people.  In 2008, it donated about 225,000 pounds of produce.  To learn more about America's Grow-A-Row visit www.americasgrowarow.org.

 

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