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Sunday, October 26
Wear your favorite costume for a fun-filled day around the Garden! Pick up your goody bag and map at the Visitor Center or Mosholu admission booths before getting on your way.
Some of the activities that you will find along your adventure are:
- Pick your own pumpkin from our Family Garden Pumpkin Patch
- Create ghostly leaves and decorations in the Ghoulish Gazebo
- Grind cacao beans and discover where chocolate comes from
- Turn an apple into cider
- Pot your own Halloween spider plant
- Discover plants that eat bugs and move at your touch
The Halloween Parade meets at the Rose Garden entrance at 12, 2, and 4 p.m. and heads to the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden where you can decorate pumpkins to take home and press your own apple cider. *
Hugh McMahon will be carving pumpkins for display at the Benenson Conifer Collection from 2 to 5 p.m.
Did you know?
- The Mayans and Aztecs both used cacao seeds as currency.
- The botanical name for the cacao tree is Theobroma cacao. “Theobroma” is a Latin term that means “food of the gods.”
- Cacao seeds from different regions of the world are blended together to enhance the flavor of chocolate—just as coffee manufacturers blend coffee beans.
An all garden pass is required to participate in the Halloween
activities.
*Please note that this event largely differs from the Halloween Parade of past years. There will be no characters and puppets in the Benenson Conifer Collection or along the way. The parade this year is comprised of visitors in costume and led by Garden staff from the Rose Garden to the Family Garden.
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