On Saturday we and the whole Texas family headed out to the Huddin Homestead Fun Farm in Rockwall, TX, about half-an-hour east of Dallas. So many of the pumpkin patches had closed, so we were happy to find this farm.
I was skeptical. Sometimes we find little more than a bunch of overpriced pumpkins and gourds, some goats to pet, and a bounce house. I was pleasantly surprised. We saw everything from barnyard to exotic animals. We saw and fed goats, cows, camels, alpaca, sloths (they were sleeping), donkeys, coatimundi, capybara, chickens, quail, rabbits, Galapagos tortoises, parakeets, cockatiels, and lovebirds. The property was dotted with playgrounds and bouncehouses, food trucks and lemonade stands, gifts shops and a corn pit to play in.
The farm gave out free food pellets for the most of the animals. For a few bucks, you could buy a cup of lettuce leaves, cucumbers, and carrots for the camels, bunnies, tortoises, and coatimundis.
A train took the kids for a ride around a small circle of track. Not much, but they loved it.
And there were pumpkins and gourds if every shape, size, and color scattered around everywhere. Piles and piles over acres of land.
Here and there food trucks offered tacos, shaved ice, ice cream, coffee, and gourmet lemonades.
A steady stream of people came to spend part of a day. At $15 a head, the take should have been pretty good over the last month or so.
I can’t imagine the work involved in caring for all those animals. And I don’t even know how one purchases a sloth, capybara, or coatimundi. Hopefully they were rescues.
The variety of animals made this attraction a lot of fun!
