Taves Farm - Abbotsford
by Mom
Activity
Taves Family Farm
Jen said it was fun, so we drove out to Abbotsford to visit Taves Farm. It was October, and we wanted to see a field of pumpkins, and hopefully find our way out of their corn maze. Most importantly, it was my birthday, and I wanted to indulge myself with a flight of their cider. We broke up the hour drive with a pit stop at Fort Langley to have lunch and check out the Antique Mall. I had high hopes on finding a 3-D Winnie The Pooh dish I kicked myself for not buying the first time I saw it, but unfortunately got skunked.
For a Wednesday afternoon, Taves was busy. We didn’t have plans to go on a hayride, try out the giant jumping pillows, or go down the 150’ Mystical Meadow Slide, so the lady at the entrance booth let us in for free. I have never seen so many pumpkins, not just your average Charlie Brown pumpkin, but pumpkins with warts, gourds, huge pumpkins, white pumpkins, Scarface pumpkins, even a pumpkin carriage like the one Cinderella arrives to the grand ball in. We lucked out on the weather, it was picture perfect.The rain we woke up to was edged out by a beautiful clear blue sky. I only bring up the weather, because through years of experience I’ve grown to associate pumpkin patches with rainy weather and muddy fields. I don’t know how many times we lugged big dirty pumpkins from a pumpkin patch into our car.
I got a kick out of the Taves Mystery Maze Bus parked in front of the corn maze. It reminded me of the van Scooby Do and the gang drove around in. We started out a little shaky in the maze: our first choice was a dead end, which sent us back-tracking to the start. It took us about half an hour to find our way out of the maze, but I reckon it could’ve been a lot longer if we didn’t know our apples. You see all the clues are about varieties of apples, which coincidentally Taves also sells. Which brings me round to our last pursuit at Taves,The Cidery.
I haven’t mentioned that Taves makes a pumpkin cider which is my favourite autumn drink. What I didn’t know was, besides pumpkin, Taves also has about 17 other ciders including fruit infused blends such as gooseberry, pear, black currant and red currant. Cole and I each got a flight of four cider, and Jen got a flight of four cocktails. I discovered a cider which I liked even more than Pumpkin; it was called Pumpkin Perry, a pumpkin pear mix. We polished off our flights, bought a few cider to take home, and headed back home. The rush hour traffic extended our trip home by about half an hour, but everybody was so happy with the success of our outing that we hardly noticed it.
Actually one of the most fun birthdays I can remember. We may have to make it a yearly event.
Details
Taves Farm is located at 333 Gladwin Road, Abbotsford.
Website: www.tavesfamilyfarms.com
Area
Abbotsford
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