ARATA PUMPKIN FARM

Food and Beverage > Fruit and Vegetables

In the early 1930’s teenage brothers John and Clarence Arata planted pumpkin seeds to feed the family’s hogs, on the site the farm sits on to this day.

One day, while they were hauling pumpkins along Highway 1, they were stopped by a passing motorist who asked to buy a few. They sold the pumpkins for a quarter apiece and just like that a business and tourist attraction was born.

Without Arata’s Pumpkin Farm, Half Moon Bay would not be the thriving town or tourist destination it is today. About 3,000 tons of pumpkins are grown annually by 15 or so commercial growers in the area, who ship them throughout the United States. Half Moon Bay truly is the “Pumpkin capital of the west coast.”

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