Watching Your Wallet: Valley family letting you pick pumpkins for cheap

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Nestled successful the foothills of Fresno County, you tin find a labour of emotion that serves arsenic a solemnisation of household and agriculture.

"There's fundamentally a pumpkin for each locomotion of life," says Poncho's Pumpkin Patch co-owner, Brian Bogdanich.

For a 2nd year, Poncho's Pumpkin Patch, located disconnected Quail Oak Road successful Auberry, is welcoming families for a $5 u-pick experience.

At the helm of the family-run cognition are Brian and Mary Bogdanich.

"Any pumpkin anyplace connected the spot is $5 a pumpkin, nary substance however large it is," Brian said.

"Munchkins are the tiny small ones -- those are 3 for $5," Mary said.

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That $5 helps with infrastructure and upkeep. Brian says determination is nary nett -- this is simply a mode to springiness backmost to the community.

"If you don't marque immoderate money, it takes the unit off, and it's a batch of amusive to bash this for the community," helium said. "We're going to bash this arsenic agelong arsenic the onshore volition let america to bash it."

The retired contractor turned husbandman says it started arsenic a 100x100-foot patch.

"I've ever been intrigued by farmers and the bully things they do, particularly successful the Central Valley," helium said.

As for the namesake, conscionable Poncho!

"Kids tin provender carrots to them, and we don't complaint for the carrots either," Mary said. "It warms my bosom erstwhile my equine is truthful benignant to small kids."

"You chopped them close connected the vine, truthful they'll past longer for you, and you get the acquisition of going retired determination and getting them," Brian said.

In summation to u-pick and clip with poncho, you tin battalion a picnic and bask the time with your family.

"I'm not doing this to marque money," Brian said. "I'm doing this to beryllium capable to turn the champion pumpkin I person and springiness backmost to the neighborhood."

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