Maan Farms Welcomes Fall With Pumpkins, Food & Frights

Fall is returning to Maan Farms in Abbotsford with an expanded pumpkin patch, new attractions, seasonal food and wine and a month of Halloween scares.

Fall at the Farm runs from Sept. 12 to Nov. 1, with the Forest Pumpkin Patch doubling in size to five acres. Tens of thousands of pumpkins will surround larger-than-life storybook structures, including Canada’s Biggest Pumpkin House and a river of colourful heirloom pumpkins. Mushroom Village features the returning Mushroom House and a 12-foot Teapot House, while a Butterfly House, Bee House and village of pumpkins can be found deeper in the patch.

 

“Some of the best parts of fall are seeing how our guests make the farm their own. Families come back to recreate the same photo, couples make it an annual tradition, and kids can’t wait to discover something new. We wanted to build on that connection by making the forest bigger, more immersive and giving guests new doorways to enter,” said Amir Maan, farmer and third-generation family member.

 

Elsewhere on the farm, visitors can tackle two corn mazes, including a family-friendly maze carved into the cursive shape of “Maan Farms” and a more challenging option. Barnyard Adventureland has added a Three-Lane Zipline Race and Corn Play Pit filled with dried corn kernels. Other attractions include a paintball gallery, climbing wall, pedal trikes, jumping pillows, play fort, tire mountains and the Petting Patch, home to pony rides, Highland cows, alpacas, donkeys, goats, pigs, chickens and peacocks. Live country music will also be featured in the Wine Garden from noon to 4 p.m. on weekends.

 

The seasonal menu at Mama Maan’s Country Kitchen includes new pumpkin pie cheesecake samosas, apple crumble ice cream jars, burgers, butter chicken mac & cheese and pulled pork mac & cheese. Returning favourites include Double Pumpkin Spice Cream, apple pie samosas, apple pie nachos, curry bowls, savoury pizzas and golden samosas.

“I am inspired by dishes reminiscent of what mom or grandma would make on a cool fall evening. Seeing people choose our farm as part of their seasonal traditions means everything to me. It’s what speaks to my heart and why I love what I do,” said Gurleen Maan, Director of Fun and third-generation family member.

 

Maan Farms Estate Winery is also adding new canned versions of its MAD Pumpkin and MAD Apple spiced wines. MAD Pumpkin recently earned silver at the National Wine Awards of Canada and features notes of pumpkin pie, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and cardamom, while MAD Apple earned bronze. A Salted Caramel Cold Foam Apple cocktail is also joining the seasonal lineup.

 

“Our new sparkling wines bring together the warm spices and crisp flavours of the season in a new way. It’s another opportunity to share the harvest with our guests,” said Gaurav Maan, Director of Winery Operations and third-generation family member.

 

Special events throughout Fall at the Farm include fall-themed Goat Yoga, Pumpkin Bingo and Gilmore Girls Trivia Night. The event welcomes all ages, and dogs are permitted on select dates.

 

Halloween Takes Over After Dark

Beginning Oct. 2 and running through Oct. 31, Maan Farms will shift gears after dark for its second annual Halloween Fright Festival, combining four haunted attractions and live theatrical performances with the family-friendly Fall at the Farm experience. The expanded Frightfully Fun Forest will feature additional lighting, sound, effects and larger-than-life photo opportunities throughout the Forest Pumpkin Patch.

“Halloween has always been about gathering, dressing up, getting scared, and making memories. As AI and screens become a bigger part of daily life, real experiences matter more than ever, but we also embrace technology to make those experiences even better. We designed the festival around that idea: one ticket, the whole experience, and iconic moments worth capturing and remembering,” said Amir.

 

New this year is BADLANDS, a no-contact, full-body immersive haunt in which the environment itself becomes the threat. Guests will move through extreme conditions ranging from punishing heat and biting cold to violent winds, drenching rain and suffocating humidity.

 

Three returning haunted attractions round out the festival. The no-contact Slaughterhouse, billed as the Scariest Corn Maze in Canada, takes guests into the butcher’s territory, passing disinfection areas, bloodstained tools, chainsaws and increasingly horrific chambers before its finale.

 

The other two attractions include contact experiences. In The Way Down, guests enter darkness while wearing hoods, encountering touch, footsteps, shadow beasts and unseen forces before the experience continues into Pitch Black. 3D CarnEvil takes a different approach, sending guests wearing 3D glasses through fluorescent scenery, bending walls, ultraviolet puppetry and distorted characters appearing from the darkness.

 

All guests entering the Halloween Fright Festival must sign a liability waiver, and some attractions may be too intense for children under 14.

Maan Farms is a third-generation family-owned and operated farm in Abbotsford. Tickets and additional information for both Fall at the Farm and the Halloween Fright Festival are available through the Maan Farms website.