25th Annual Pumpkin Festival: Opening Weekend with Punkin’ Chunkin’ World Champion “Team Carbo“
Venue: Sinkland Farms, Christiansburg
Organizations: Huckleberry Pie, Soupbone
Date: Saturday, October 1, 2016
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Drink Specials, Miscellaneous, Family Friendly, Arts & Theatre
Cost:

Description:
Sinkland Farms presents the Opening Weekend of their 25th Annual Pumpkin Festival on Saturday, October 1, 2016 and Sunday, October 2, 2016.

The Pumpkin Festival is known as “a family tradition” and offers many family-friendly attractions for the young and young at heart, including hayrides to the pumpkin fields to pick your own “great pumpkin,” a brain-twisting corn maze, farmyard animals and fantastic live music on two great stages every weekend in October. On Saturday's from 10 am - 5 pm and Sunday's 1-5 pm.

For the opening weekend only Punkin’ Chunkin’ World Champion “Team Carbo“ of Raleigh, NC will be demonstrating their catapult, The Onager, and slinging pumpkins up to 2000 feet!

Saturday Schedule:
• All Day – Punkin’ Chunkin’ with Team Carbo’ Onager!
• All Day – Art in the Barn with Susan Oller
• All Day – Ed’s Carved and Painted Pumpkins
• All Day - Wine Tastings with Whitebarrel Winery
• 12:00 pm – Appalachian Aftershock Dancers
• 1:30-3:30 pm – Marya Katz, Kid’s Entertainer
• 1:30-4:30 pm – Live Music at Barn Stage with Huckleberry Pie
• 1:30-4:30 pm - Live Music at Back Porch Stage with Soupbone

Other attractions include local arts and crafts on display and sale, performances by local dance troupes, pumpkin slingshots, kettle corn, ice cream and great food and surprise visits by the incredible, 12-foot-tall iron HokieTRON.

There will be even more special features and attractions every weekend, all included with admission, such as performances by the Virginia Tech and Radford University Dance Clubs, roving musicians and A Capella singing groups. The Southwest Virginia Birds of Prey will provide a special presentation. Kids run wild (literally) in the Kidz Zone (with supervision, of course). The New River Valley Cruisers will be cruising in during the season. Also, for an additional fee, there are pony carts, pony rides, and horseback trail rides.

For more information, visit: http://sinklandfarms.com/pumpkin-festival/ or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sinkland-Farms/399327097322 or call 540-382-4640.