{"id":13890,"date":"2013-10-04T02:38:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T09:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13890"},"modified":"2013-10-04T02:39:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T09:39:34","slug":"in-praise-of-pumpkins-10-pumpkin-festivals-this-weekend-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/in-praise-of-pumpkins-10-pumpkin-festivals-this-weekend-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Pumpkins: 10 Pumpkin Festivals this Weekend in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/oji1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/oji1.jpg\" width=\"920\" height=\"456\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pictured is Bocalli Ranch Pumpkin Patch in Ojai<\/p>\n<p>I just bought several pints of Trader Joe&#8217;s pumpkin ice cream, sold seasonally beginning in October. Their recipe is one of the best anywhere. If you haven&#8217;t tried it, get ready to get hooked. Pumpkin pies, pumpkin lattes, pumpkin soup, pumpkin cheesecake and pumpkin ice cream are just a few dishes you&#8217;ll find in restaurants and sold at festivals. Get out and enjoy the pumpkins! Here are 10 pumpkin festivals to get you going&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ELK GROVE \u00a0CSD Giant Pumpkin Festival, October 5-6, 2013, yourcsd.com<\/li>\n<li>LA VERNE \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/la-verne-halloween.html\"> Heritage Pumpkin Patch<\/a> October 5 &#8211; 30, 2013<\/li>\n<li>LOS GATOS \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/los-gatos-halloween.html\">Haunted Harvest Festival<\/a> featuring Goblyn&#8217;s Glen at Oak Meadow Park, October 4 &#8211; 31, 2013<\/li>\n<li>MANTECA Pumpkin Fair, October 5-6, 2013, mantecapumpkinfair.org<\/li>\n<li>OJAI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/ojai-halloween.html\">Pumpkin Patch<\/a> and Haunted Hayrides October 5-31, 2013, Bocalli Ranch<\/li>\n<li>PASADENA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/pasadena-halloween.html\">Kidspace Pumpkin Festival <\/a>October 5 &amp; 6, 2013<\/li>\n<li>PLEASANTON: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/pleasanton-halloween.html\">Pirates of Emerson and Haunted Bumpkin Patch<\/a>\u00a0October 4-5, 2013<\/li>\n<li>SANTA PAULA \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/agoura-hills-halloween.html\">Pumpkin Patch<\/a> at Faulkner Farm October 5-27, 2013<\/li>\n<li>VALLEY CENTER Pumpkin Festival October 5-6, 2013, batesnutfarm.biz<\/li>\n<li>WATSONVILLE Harvest Festival and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/watsonville-halloween.html\">Pumpkin Patch<\/a> October 5, 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured is Bocalli Ranch Pumpkin Patch in Ojai I just bought several pints of Trader Joe&#8217;s pumpkin ice cream, sold seasonally beginning in October. Their recipe is one of the best anywhere. If you haven&#8217;t tried it, get ready to get hooked. Pumpkin pies, pumpkin lattes, pumpkin soup, pumpkin cheesecake and pumpkin ice cream are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}