{"id":7362,"date":"2010-10-25T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=7362"},"modified":"2010-10-25T16:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T20:00:25","slug":"halloween-hoorah-for-kids-of-all-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2010\/10\/garden-programming\/halloween-hoorah-for-kids-of-all-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Hoorah: For Kids of All Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
Justin Wollenhaupt is a Marketing Associate.<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\"Halloween<\/a>Anyone who thinks Halloween Hoorah<\/a>—The New York Botanical Garden<\/a>‘s annual celebration of all things Halloween and pumpkin–is just for kids clearly did not see the look on my fianc\u00e9\u2019s face on a recent Saturday. Maybe it was the generous wine samples we had just enjoyed at the Edible Garden<\/em><\/a>\u2019s finale weekend, or maybe it had to do with the fact that she\u2019s been bringing up having children more often, and more insistently.\u00a0 Either way, her expression of delight as we walked through the Everett Children\u2019s Adventure Garden<\/a> was unreservedly enthusiastic, and, to a man who has been dealing with the daily headaches of having just moved into a fourth-floor walk-up, this change in mood was entirely welcome.<\/p>\n

She had visited the Botanical Garden before, but never at Halloween Hoorah time, and we had a blast checking out the hundreds of carved and sculpted pumpkins<\/a> lining the paths<\/a> of the Children’s Garden<\/a>. The artist who made them, Michael Anthony Natiello<\/a>, must absolutely love his job. Either that, or he has nightmares of an endless conveyor belt of pumpkins.<\/p>\n

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She was eyeing the Pumpkin Playhouse, which is a bit cramped for we adult-sized folk, so rather than risk what could become an awkward playhouse extraction scene, we headed over to the cider-pressing and applesauce-making areas. I hadn\u2019t realized we\u2019d been eating so much, but between the Tasting Terrace and the cider and applesauce, I needed to walk it off.\u00a0 So we headed off for stroll through the Native Forest to check out the foliage.<\/p>\n

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We missed the parade<\/a> and the activities in the Family Garden, but I promised to bring her back before the Hoorah is over to see the world-record monster pumpkin<\/a> (1,810 pounds!) that arrived Friday<\/a>, so we\u2019ll have another chance to make the rounds. There\u2019s almost too much to do in one trip through anyway! For the full list of Halloween Hoorah activities, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n