The Pumpkin Patch

Coeur d’Alene’s own pumpkin patch “just on the edge of the Rathdrum Prairie”.  For over 20 years Prairie Home Farms has opened its gates the month of October for pumpkin picking with half its business stemming from field trips for schools and organizations.

It’s a 100+ year old farm, so with it’s added 1948 Dodge truck, 1956 Case tractor and other scattered pieces, the photo ops are abundant.

It’s simple, uncommercialized attraction (other than its pumpkins) is the gaggle of farm animals found in its pasture, pend, coops, hutches and barn.

Children can pet or feed the animals and experience what a farmstead may have looked like when farms dotted the prairie.

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Lil' Punkin Pie Co.

Born out of an abundance of fruit grown on the farm, and the owners passion for baking, Lil’ Pumpkin Pie Co. began in 2016, proudly creating fruit pies with classic recipes and a pinch of farm and nostalgia.  Linda’s grandfather owned a bakery, so armed with baking in her blood, and fruit grown locally, the pies coming out of this very busy little bakery are “just like gramma used to make”.  With no brick and mortar, pies are preordered for pickup at the farm, including holiday pies and as a solid member of Kootenai County Farmers Market, we are their “pie person” and sell-out every Saturday morning.

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