Milky Way Farm — Attraction in Uwchlan Township

Really disappointed in this years Milky Way trip. Here’s the lowdown~ They want five dollars a head to pick a pumpkin or do the corn maze but if you only want to pick up pumpkin you still have to pay. So before we even started walking we were $20 down. The animals were delightful for the children so that got a star. As you approach the pumpkin patch not one pumpkin seemed naturally growing where it is meaning they picked all the pumpkins and then dumped them within a 50 foot radius. So the advertising should detail that the pumpkins have already been packed and that they are not naturally in their places so that you don’t think you’re going to go to a pumpkin patch to pick pumpkins. And while the ice cream is lovely you stand in line no less than 45 minutes to get ice cream that is then weighed by the pound and you’re probably looking at $30 for four people. So between the cost of the pumpkins the cost just to get in to walk their ground and then the ice cream you’re looking at $100 day and if I’m gonna spend $100 I want to pick my own pumpkin right off the vine. And when you have young children they are not going to necessarily do a corn maze so to assume that we are doing all of the parts of what is available is assumptive. Hay rides are no longer available only available for people of 20 and I think they charge $75.

The ice cream staff were super friendly and the staff checking out pumpkins was also friendly the people selling the bracelets and tickets not so much.

Next time I would say go to a farm where by you can get your own pumpkin a little more naturally like Sugartown Strawberries.

We will most likely just go for ice cream from now on and hopefully not during as...

Milky Way Farm is beautiful and so much fun! This past October was our second year going pumpkin picking at Milky Way, and it is definitely a tradition we are going to keep up. The farm provides a hayride to the pumpkin patches to pick your own pumpkin, or they have an area with stands with pumpkins on display to choose from. The pumpkin patch is very large with a variety of different looking pumpkins to choose from, a lot of which I have never seen at other farms! During the hayride, they have a guide who tells the history of the farm and tells about all the buildings on the grounds and what they are used for now and what they used to be. The guides also give an overview of different crops they grow on the farm, as well as a history of the dairy farm that they are best known for. The cows they keep provide the milk to make their AMAZING ice cream at the creamery on site. It is some of the best ice cream I've ever had. They also have an outdoor farmer's market with produce, honey, syrup, cider, milk, and eggs (in a refridgerated shed). The produce is amazingly priced, though the honey and syrup are a little pricey- but very worth the price! They have a great set up for kids with a petting zoo of baby animals- this past year had a lamb, a calf, and a goat. They also have pens with adult animals, but not for touching. There is a corn maze further back on the grounds, but we did not go through it, so I can't say anything about it.

For convenience, they provide wagons to put pumpkins and produce in while you walk around. They have cash registers set up in a tent near the parking lot to pay at, and they accept credit cards.

I highly, highly recommend visiting...

My friend and I brought our families to Milky Way Farm for a private one-hour tour, which ended up being led by the woman who owns and lives on the farm. From the onset, there was a noticeably uncomfortable difference in the way she treated my daughter, who is white and my friend’s daughter, who is Asian American. To start, my friend’s daughter was scolded for interacting with the goats through the fence, while my daughter did the same, without incident. My daughter went on receive what is seemingly the “normal” farm tour experience (e.g., being asked direct questions to keep her engaged and inviting her to pet the animals). On the other hand, my friend and her daughter were spoken to in a condescending manner and left out of certain animal experiences completely. Any hesitation we may have had that we were somehow misjudging the situation, was gone as soon as she spoke about foregoing the expensive cow milking machinery and just “hiring a bunch of Mexicans to milk the cows instead”, as a legitimate money-saving strategy for a dairy farm.

Unfortunately, this does not appear to be the first incident with this person. A review made by another Asian family, alleges the same kind of unwarranted aggressive and condescending treatment directed at their young son. This is not a coincidence.

I hope you take these events seriously and make whatever changes necessary to ensure that your farm is a welcoming place for all children. Especially as a popular field trip location for many area schools. At a minimum, I do not think the female owner should be giving tours to any...