Lavender Hill Pumpkins is a family owned and tended pumpkin farm located in the little town of Fallbrook, California. We grow a selection of varieties that produce unusually large or unique pumpkins. With luck, this year’s crop will include up to three thousand pumpkins in three dozen varieties, ranging from the very large, to the very small, to the very eccentric.

On the jumbo end we have the North Atlantic Giant (up to 300 pounds, milky orange, lush and beautiful), and the Prizewinner (the quintessential giant with a traditional orange skin). If you’re hankering for a unique shape, we have the French variety Rouge Vif d’Etampes which produces a striking, medium sized, flat pumpkin with distinct lobes and an unusual russet coat (the kind Cinderella drove). Or, if diminutive is more your style, we have Jack B. Little and Munchkin, endearing miniature varieties. Then there’s the Aussie maverick, Jarradale, a grayish green oddball. And as for Pierce’s Motley? We’ll just have to wait and see: those are mystery pumpkins grown from the seed of some of last year’s atypicals.   

Our pumpkins are organically grown and watered from a well on the farm. The crop is tended by our family, and as the pumpkins mature over the summer, we get fond of them and some of the most distinctive specimens acquire titles: Charlemagne, Boadicea, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, Queen Victoria, Pippin, Ichabod, Falstaff, Cleopatra, Thumbelina, Thumbelina’s Little Brother, Chorky, Titania, Tall Boy, Pippi, Jeeves. We grow pumpkins because, well, we love pumpkins. Yes, it's absurd, but we even get rather attached, as it turns out. ("How did it go today, Mikey?" "Close call! A couple came by and  almost bought Zeus, but thank goodness they changed their minds and got three  smaller ones instead...") The vines are spectacular, and if you’re in the Fallbrook area during the growing season (July through October), you just might want to glide by Mission Road and have a look at the green jungle where the behemoths are growing. Lavender Hill Pumpkin Farm is just a few minutes off I-15, easy for pumpkin lovers to reach from anywhere in San Diego County, Orange County, Riverside, or Los Angeles.