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Brookleigh Pumpkin Patch: Meet the former London mum who is now running a pumpkin patch and Halloween trail in rural Yorkshire

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When Clapham-based mum-of-two Sarah Foster suddenly found herself 200 miles from home nearly four years ago it was the biggest culture shock of her life, but little did she know that within three years she would be not just a mum-of-three but now a grower and fast becoming an expert on pumpkins, much to her father’s delight.

This is the third year of Sarah’s Brookleigh Pumpkin Patch at Menston where she has trebled her original 200 pumpkins grown in 2021 and has now incorporated a new Hallowe’en Trail this year. “My husband Tom is from here,” says Sarah. “I’d been coming up every year to help with his family’s Christmas Tree business on the farm, but I was very happy in Clapham. I loved the lifestyle, but when the pandemic hit it was ’we’ve got to get back to the farm’.

“I’ve learned about how to plant, irrigation, fertilisation, bug control, pollination, slug control, rabbit control and how to cure them properly and prepare for sale, but I still had a dreadful time at the start of this year’s crop. “The weather was tough this year. It was really warm at first and then got really rainy. We planted down the other end of farm as well, but we got hit by rabbits and slugs.

 

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