Last weekend, we visited Gentry’s Farm in Franklin, Tennessee, for the first time. I had heard good things about it from other Nashville moms, but it far exceeded my expectations.
The farm is located in a beautiful area of Franklin, with a breathtaking view of rolling hills. It is a working farm and for that reason is only open to the public a few days a week in October.
Gentry’s has multiple playgrounds and play areas, plenty of pumpkins, a four-acre corn maze, putt putt golf, tons of farm animals, and more.
My favorite part was the hay wagon ride through the cow fields and past the historic buildings.
The farm has been in the Gentry family since the mid-1800s and is currently run by the great-great grandson and great-great-great grandson of Samuel Fielding Glass, Jr., the gentleman who began purchasing the land in 1848. His father had moved to Franklin in 1812 and started a hat making business.
Construction on the main house began before the Civil War and was completed several years later.
There are two log homes on the property that were built in the early 1800s.
Do you enjoy visiting pumpkin farms in the fall?
This is so cool! So much history!
I love visiting pumpkin farms or apple orchards one of my favorite things to do in the fall! do you guys go to any apple orchards?
Sadly Nashville doesn’t have many apple orchards. I’m not sure why that is.
I love pumpkin farms and it is a tradition in my family to go to multiple pumpkin farms in the Fall. I have to say that the dark you just posted is really impressive and a lot bigger then the ones around where I live. We do however have huge apple orchids here and we make it another tradition to also go apple picking in the Fall. They have hayrides at our orchids that take us through the huge orchids and other areas of their farms. Fall time is the best time!!
Farm not dark…Sheesh spell check sometimes has a kind of its own lol
Love it! Historical places are so neat! Someday you should come visit Europe. You would have a blast!
I would love to visit Europe! I went when I was 10 years old to visit family, and we also toured around. It was a blast, and I know I would enjoy it even more as an adult.
The main house is beautiful. I’ve been to 2 different pumpkin farms with my grandchildren and their parents. It was a lot of fun and there were many things for kids to do. The thing I enjoy was taking a wagon ride out to the field and picking my own pumpkin. 🙂
Do you celebrate Halloween?
You should look up the history of Halloween.. it’s definitely completely evil and it breaks my heart that so many Christians today choose to go to the enemy’s side one day a year and let him have that influence in their family.. I simply can’t understand how people are blinded to skeletons, death, freaky masks saying it’s okay- it says that those who hate God love death.. and that explains why this world celebrates. You can look up multiple videos on YouTube about ex-witches and Halloween and the truth behind it. It’s truly so so dark. Just really wanted to tell you the truth and pray that you make the right decision in this matter!
Mr. Handsome didn’t grow up trick-or-treating, but I did. We haven’t decided yet what we will do for our children. This year we feel like he’s too young to understand anyways, so we’re just going to give it another year or two before making the decision. However, it’s a different world than it was when I was little, so there’s a good chance we will choose not to do trick or treating because of safety concerns.
Mr. Handsome didn’t grow up trick-or-treating, but I did. We haven’t decided yet what we will do for our children. This year we feel like he’s too young to understand anyways, so we’re just going to give it another year or two before making the decision. However, it’s a different world than it was when I was little, so there’s a good chance we will choose not to do trick or treating because of safety concerns.
Do you observe Halloween or is that too…Satanic (not sure what term to use) in your religion? Did you grow up going trick-or-treating? Are you going to let your son go?
Mr. Handsome didn’t grow up trick-or-treating, but I did. We haven’t decided yet what we will do for our children. This year we feel like he’s too young to understand anyways, so we’re just going to give it another year or two before making the decision. However, it’s a different world than it was when I was little, so there’s a good chance we will choose not to do trick or treating because of safety concerns.
It’s a shame you feel you couldn’t trust neighbors to do trick or treating safely. In our neighborhood, bunches of us gather on our front lawns to eat, socialize, and hand out candy to the kids who come by. People were sitting out all over the place with food and fire pits. We had about 50-60 kids come by our house and (adult) neighbors from 6 different houses come over to sit and chat and have refreshments. Maybe if you start your own neighborhood gathering, it would grow? We’ve been doing this for 30 years. Halloween doesn’t have to be a night of safety concerns.
That sounds really nice. We don’t have many children in our neighborhood, but I’m hoping that will change in the future.
What you do then is have a friend in a family-packed subdivision and start something there. Guarantee that if you sit out year after year and offer food for the neighbors, the party will grow. It doesn’t have to be the traditional Halloween theme or ghoulish decorations or anything like that. Gather and hand out candy to any kids who come by (your own kids don’t have to go around) and have a good time with the neighbors. Grill hot dogs, have hot cider, whatever. Turn that night into a happy gathering, not something that might go against your religious beliefs or make you worried about safety. No, it’s not really a different world…people are still good. Have faith in them and be the example through which others can show their own goodness.