For the past two years, Angie and Chuck Yeargan, owners of Yeargan Farms, have welcomed countless children and parents to their pumpkin patch. 

Unfortunately, fall will be a little different in Dallas County this season as the pumpkin patch takes a hiatus.

“My husband hurt his back in the end of June, and that is when we plant pumpkins … so we weren’t able to get the pumpkins [and corn] planted,” Angie said.

Angie said she will miss having the visitors around the farm, but she is also going to take the break to spend more time with her family.

“[The pumpkin patch] takes a lot of work day and night for months at a time,” Angie said. “I love spending time with everybody else’s families at the pumpkin patch, and I’ll miss all the children, but I wanted to spend a little bit of time with my family as well this year.”

Angie said families are the reason the Yeargans started the pumpkin patch in the first place.

“All the kids enjoyed it so much. Even when I would see them in town, they knew that we were the ones that owned the pumpkin patch, and they’d always come and give us a hug,” she said.

“So I’m definitely going to miss all the kiddos coming from the different schools.”

The Yeargans are hoping to be back open in 2016. They will still be renting out the facility for events and plan to still have programs for Christmas.

“We hope to open back up with even more activities than we’ve had in the past,” Angie said.

For more information about the farm, visit their website at www.yeargan.com.