Pumpkin patch adjusts to pandemic

(KOB/NBC News) New Mexico’s McCall’s Pumpkin Patch welcomed back visitors for the first time this season with new COVID-19 restrictions in place.

Pumpkin patch owners Kevin and Kirsten McCall said all visitors are required to wear masks and social distance. This year, the McCall’s said they had to do without their hayrides and haunted house events per the state’s orders.

“The one that we hated to see go was the hayrides,” Kevin McCall said. “We kind of got the official word yesterday that those are not a go, but we shifted on the fly and we brought lots more pumpkins in closer to the farm.”

“And a lot of people are hiking half a mile out into the field to pick a pumpkin,” Kirsten McCall added.

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