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Pam Baker instucts students from Montevallo Elementary about some of the rules that need to be fallowed while on the farm.

Old Baker Farm’s pumpkin harvest hours began Sept. 28 and will continue each weekend through October. (FILE)

Montevallo students pose for a picture on the the farms pumpkin truck.

Some kids dicovered pumpkins on the property that were bigger than they were.

This young girl enjoys some time on the tire swing.

Montevallo students enjoyed a little free time by climbing on designated hay bails.

Everyone wanted a turn on the top of the hay bail mountain.

Pam Baker gives a lesson to students about the importance of cotton and its role that it has in our everytday life.

Cotton has been grown in these fileds for over a hundred years.

1st grader Izabella Mendonca collects cotton with her class.

Bristol Hannah, Kalyn Ervin and Kaytlynn Barron work together picking cotton on Old Baker Farm.

This entire basket of cotton was picked by the students from Montevallo Elementary school.

Students pose with the cotton they picked out of the field.

Students got a chance to feed some of the farm animals.

Time to scrub up before lunchtime in the barn.

Montevallo students had the oppurtunity to eat their lunch in the top loft of the barn.

Students from Restoration Academy enjoyed watching the 2 week old cows being feed.

Students got to help feed some of the animals in the petting area.

Students got to get up close and personal with many of the animals in the petting farm.

Few things are as fun on a farm as a hay maze.

Pumpkins are just one of the many things grown on Old Baker Farm.

By STEPHEN DAWKINS / Staff Writer

HARPERSVILLE – Pumpkin harvest hours have begun at Old Baker Farm in Harpersville, and the farm’s festival weekend is coming soon.

Old Baker Farm, which is located at 184 Furrow Lane in Harpersville, will hold Western Cowboy Day on Oct. 8-9, Living History Day on Oct. 21, and Cotton Pickin’ Celebration on Oct. 22-23.

For Western Cowboy Day, the farm will be the site of “shootouts,” Western music and square dancing, hay wagon rides, a hay mountain and more, including the popular pumpkin patch, which is open to visitors throughout the season.

Children are encouraged to wear Western attire during Western Cowboy Day.

The farm will be on from 9 a.m. to dark on Oct. 8 and from 1 p.m. until dark on Oct. 9.

The gates close at 5 p.m. each day during the season.

Admission costs $10 per person, while children under 2 get in free. Cash and checks are accepted.

The admission fee includes a pumpkin and all events except food, arts and crafts, and horseback rides.

Educating students is the focus of Living History Day, which includes about 10 stations where students can learn from historians about the Civil War, and one station where students can learn about Native Americans, according to Pam Baker with Old Baker Farm.

“It’s very much done in the way a Civil War soldier would have done it,” Baker said about the stations, which form a small encampment near a log cabin at the farm. “We try to add something every year so we can keep people curious.”

Bristol Hannah, Kalyn Ervin and Kaytlynn Barron pick cotton at Old Baker Farm.

Living History Day is open only to school groups of students in third through sixth grades.

Demonstrations include artillery firing, infantry manual of arms, learning and participating in some basic infantry marching drills, cavalry, signal corps, and old fashioned soap making.

Classes will learn about uniforms and equipment used by soldiers, what camp life and food were like, different flags of the war, and see and learn about earthworks forts by stepping into a full size replica earthworks fort.

Living History Day attendance costs $8 per person, which includes a hayride. Lunch is not included.

The Cotton Pickin’ Celebration and arts and crafts festival will follow Living History Day.

During the festival, the farm will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 22 and 23.

The cost to attend will be $10, with ages 2 and under free.

Pumpkin harvest hours began Sept. 24 and will continue through Oct. 31.

For more information about any of the events, visit OldBakerFarm.com.

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