Celebrating Halloween at the Farm
I hope you all had a fun Halloween!
Halloween is among my favorite occasions. I always love to decorate the front entrance to my farm in preparation for all the little ghosts and goblins that go trick or treating on All Hallows' Eve. This year, I added something even more exciting than candy to each of the children’s treat bags.
Enjoy these photos.
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- We lined lots of pumpkins along the front stone wall. All of these pumpkins were grown right here at the farm.
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- Here’s my longtime housekeeper, Laura. She loves holiday decorating. She’s been helping me to decorate my home every holiday for 32-years.
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- Fernando helps with all the outdoor decorating. Here he is putting a pumpkin on top of one of the front stone columns.
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- Fernando also hung up our ghosts. These ghosts are so frightening when they blow in the evening fall breeze.
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- In my Winter House basement, my executive assistant, Shqipe, bags lots of candy for all the little revelers.
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- These clear cellophane bags are available online and can be so helpful for packaging candies, cookies, and other small gifts.
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- We have lots of delicious chocolate favorites for the children, including these Hershey’s Kisses. These are “Hugs” – white chocolate with strips of milk chocolate hugged with solid milk chocolate inside.
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- The Twix Caramel Cookie Bar was first introduced in the United States in 1979. It has a crunchy cookie and smooth caramel topped with creamy chocolate.
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- Milky Ways are among my favorites. It was originally inspired by the famous malted milk beverage of the 1920s. It started with a little bit of chocolate malt nougat, topped with caramel, and then smothered with milk chocolate.
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- Here is a bowl of Kit Kats – those tasty chocolate covered wafer bars – another big hit with children and adults.
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- In 1930, Mars introduced Snickers, named after the favorite horse of the Mars family. The Snickers chocolate bar consists of nougat, peanuts, and caramel with a chocolate coating.
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- York Peppermint Pattie is a dark chocolate enrobed peppermint confection first produced in York, Pennsylvania in 1940.
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- Tootsie Pops are hard candy lollipops filled with chocolate-flavored chewy Tootsie Roll. They were invented in 1931 by Lukas R. “Luke” Weisgram, an employee of The Sweets Company of America, which eventually changed its name to Tootsie Roll Industries in 1969.
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- Shqipe placed one piece of each kind of candy into the cellophane bags.
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- Just the perfect amount for our littles trick-or-treaters.
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- As the bags were being filled, I came down with a jar of saved pennies – I wanted to add a few into each bag. It’s a great way to get rid of all those pennies, while offering something a bit more valuable than candy.
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- Then I decided to add one dollar to each bag.
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- I cut pieces of ribbon as Shqipe continued to fill the bags with candy and one-dollar bills.
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- Then, Shqipa tied the decorative orange ribbons to the tops of each bag.
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- About 100-children always come by my house Halloween night.
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- Here is our basket of treats. We gave candy to each staff member – their bags did not have any money – then kept the treat bags by the front gate for all the neighborhood trick-or-treaters.
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- As night fell, we captured these photos of the decorations in the front entryway.
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- The pumpkins appeared lit up as a ghosts flew overhead – all frightfully fun. Everything was set in time for the parade of costumed children to arrive at my gate.
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- Here in New York, the weather was mild – a perfect night for Halloween and our ghosts.
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